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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men do to Christmas?
(a) They promise not to inform on him.
(b) They beat him senseless.
(c) They give him a head start.
(d) They let him leave without incident.

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

3. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Working the night shift
(b) Volunteering at the hospital
(c) Driving a cab
(d) Selling whiskey illegally

4. Who does Joe Brown accuse of murdering the answer to #42?
(a) Lucas Burch
(b) Joe Christmas
(c) Lena Grove
(d) Hightower

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

6. What does the dietician offer Christmas as a bribe?
(a) a silver dollar
(b) an afternoon at the movies
(c) a visit to a theme park
(d) a trip into town

7. What is the demeanor of the answer to #13?
(a) Intelligent and serious
(b) Proud and contemptuous
(c) Easygoing and happy
(d) The life of the party

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

9. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.
(a) a list of errands he has to accomplish today
(b) some letters he has to mail
(c) a girlie/gun magazine, razor, shaving brush and shaving soap
(d) all the spare cash he can find

10. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?
(a) Because it will soon be a ghost town.
(b) Because she was evicted.
(c) Because she does not like anybody there.
(d) Because she lost her job.

11. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?
(a) Mrs. McEachern walking in the moonlight.
(b) Two tramps scavenging for food
(c) The scarecrow in the vegetable garden
(d) The shadow of Christmas running by to get into an arriving car

12. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the north as it is in the south?
(a) He gets his first apartment in the north.
(b) He can sit wherever he wants to in northern restaurants.
(c) It is easier for him to get a job in the north.
(d) A prositute still wants her money even after he tells her he has Negro blood.

13. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?
(a) Because he never has been any good
(b) Because he has Negro blood
(c) Because he is an itinerant
(d) Because he has murderous eyes

14. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?
(a) Because Miss Burden had been praying over him
(b) Because he is on a new medication
(c) Because he is drunk
(d) Because he has a violent temper

15. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?
(a) Miller
(b) Brown
(c) White
(d) Black

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

2. What does Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?

3. How did Mrs. Hightower die?

4. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?

5. When Christmas' position in the room is revealed, the dietician accuses him of __________.

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