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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How much older than Lena is McKinley?
(a) 7 years
(b) 13 years
(c) 20 years
(d) 10 years
2. Christmas walks into the woods and reaches a point by a small stream where he ___________________.
(a) whittles for awhile
(b) goes fishing
(c) goes swimming
(d) builds a fire and takes a nap
3. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.
(b) Christmas falls asleep.
(c) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(d) Christmas soils his clothes.
4. What does Bobbie do that lets Christmas know that she does not want to marry him?
(a) She throws away his money and screams at him.
(b) She refuses to pack her clothes.
(c) She slams a door in his face.
(d) She tells him that she enjoys being a whore.
5. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(b) That her head has been almost severed from her body
(c) That she is incoherent
(d) That she is still alive
6. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?
(a) Cliques
(b) Menstruation
(c) PMS
(d) Going steady
7. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Brown
(d) Miller
8. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.
(a) scar
(b) mole
(c) cut
(d) rash
9. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?
(a) That Lucas Burch was murdered.
(b) That Hightower was murdered.
(c) That Joe Christmas was murdered.
(d) That Miss Burden was murdered
10. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?
(a) Because she does not like anybody there.
(b) Because it will soon be a ghost town.
(c) Because she lost her job.
(d) Because she was evicted.
11. What does Christmas do when he asks the waitress out and she wants to return home because she has her monthly period?
(a) He tells her that they can make a date for another night.
(b) He hits her, runs away to the woods and vomits.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He never talks to her again.
12. What is the intention of the four boys?
(a) They are going to have sex with a Negro girl waiting inside the sawmill.
(b) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.
(c) They want to get drunk.
(d) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.
13. What is Lena's hometown?
(a) Montgomery, Alabama
(b) Memphis, Tennessee
(c) Mobile, Alabama
(d) Doane's Mill, Alabama
14. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?
(a) He and Brown are partners in the whiskey business.
(b) He is bored with the work at the mill.
(c) He is leaving town.
(d) He got a better offer from another mill.
15. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?
(a) Mrs. McEachern walking in the moonlight.
(b) The scarecrow in the vegetable garden
(c) Two tramps scavenging for food
(d) The shadow of Christmas running by to get into an arriving car
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
2. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?
3. What does Christmas do when he realizes that the waitress sleeps with other men for money?
4. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?
5. What does Christmas do as he stands underneath Miss Burden's bedroom window?
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