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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mrs. Hightower die?
(a) She took an overdose of sleeping pills.
(b) She either fell or jumped from a Memphis hotel room.
(c) She was in a car accident.
(d) She had a heart attack.

2. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He provides artistic services.
(b) He has a landscaping business.
(c) He does people's taxes.
(d) He is a writer.

3. Byron takes Lena to a _______________ so she can spend the night.
(a) bed and breakfast
(b) boardinghouse
(c) hotel
(d) hostel

4. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?
(a) Lena Grove
(b) Byron Bunch
(c) Joe Christmas
(d) Miss Atkins

5. What does Christmas do when he has no money to pay the answer to #112?
(a) They tell him that they will take a check.
(b) He tells them he is of Negro blood and they chase him away with no thought of payment.
(c) They tell him to use a credit card.
(d) They call the authorities on him.

6. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?
(a) Her older brother
(b) Her best friend
(c) Her godparents
(d) Her parents

7. What does Christmas do as he stands underneath Miss Burden's bedroom window?
(a) He serenades her.
(b) He yells obscenities at her.
(c) He strips himself of the undergarment he wears.
(d) He throws rocks at her window.

8. Why is Christmas attracted to the waitress?
(a) She gives him extra marshmallows for his cocoa.
(b) She is small and all the men seem to like her.
(c) She has a good sense of humor.
(d) She has a great smile.

9. Why is Joe ashamed when he places an order for pie and coffee?
(a) He is too young to drink coffee.
(b) He does not have enough money.
(c) He stutters when he talks.
(d) He spills the coffee on his shirt.

10. What does Bobbie do that lets Christmas know that she does not want to marry him?
(a) She refuses to pack her clothes.
(b) She slams a door in his face.
(c) She throws away his money and screams at him.
(d) She tells him that she enjoys being a whore.

11. What does Christmas announce to everyone present?
(a) That he and Bobbie are running away.
(b) That Bobbie is not a harlot.
(c) That he had told McEachern that he would kill him one day.
(d) That he did not mean to hurt his stepfather.

12. What does Christmas do when he earns some more money?
(a) He goes to a movie.
(b) He returns to the restaurant and pays the waitress the balance of what he owed for his pie and coffee.
(c) He buys some girlie magazines.
(d) He takes his friends out drinking.

13. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?
(a) Because he wants Lena to return home.
(b) Because he wants her to like him.
(c) Because he wants Lena to stop poking around in things that are not her business.
(d) Because he does not want her making a fool of herself in front of the whole town.

14. How much older than Lena is McKinley?
(a) 7 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 20 years
(d) 13 years

15. What does Christmas do after he awakens?
(a) He goes to a small store nearby to buy food for breakfast.
(b) He decides to just spend the day daydreaming at the stream.
(c) He writes some letters that he has been been delaying.
(d) He cooks the fish he has caught.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?

2. Why does Joe Christmas refrain from beating Joe Brown when he could have easily killed him the night in the cabin?

3. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?

4. Who is the only one who knows that Byron drives all night on Saturdays in order to conduct the choir at a distant country church and then drive home in time to go to work on Mondays?

5. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas

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