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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?
(a) Her gloves
(b) Her shoes
(c) Her boots
(d) Her raincoat

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

3. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?
(a) Memphis
(b) Out to dinner
(c) Choir practice
(d) Shopping

4. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To teach Sunday School
(b) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church
(c) To lead the church choir
(d) To be the priest at the Catholic Church

5. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?
(a) His Bible
(b) Food for a long trip
(c) Enough clean clothes for a long weekend
(d) All the money that Mrs. McEachern has hidden

6. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.
(a) formal suit and suspenders
(b) sweats
(c) t-shirt and jeans
(d) suit pants, white shirt and bow tie

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

8. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas
(a) That he is a nigger and will have to be sent to a nigger orphanage
(b) That he is too old to stay in this orphanage
(c) That he will be adopted soon
(d) That he will never be adopted

9. How much time does Byron spend at the mill?
(a) 40 hours
(b) Six days a week
(c) Whatever he feels like
(d) Part-time hours

10. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?
(a) He is a thief.
(b) He is a bastard.
(c) He is a fugitive.
(d) He is part Negro.

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

12. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?
(a) Pink toothpaste
(b) Makeup
(c) Perfume
(d) Talcum powder

13. Who is Bobbie?
(a) Bobbie is a waitress Christmas meets at a rundown restaurant.
(b) Bobbie is the name Christmas gives his new heifer.
(c) Bobbie is the choir leader at church.
(d) Bobbie is Mrs. McEachern's sister.

14. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
(b) Because it is none of her business
(c) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden
(d) Because she is an abolitionist

15. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?
(a) Menstruation
(b) Going steady
(c) Cliques
(d) PMS

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?

2. What is the intention of the four boys?

3. What name does the dietician call Christmas?

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

5. 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?

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