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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Christmas do when the horse he is riding back to town runs out of energy?
(a) He rests while the horse rests.
(b) He walks the horse back to the barn.
(c) He trots the horse into town.
(d) He abandons the horse and runs to town.

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

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

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

6. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
(a) The janitor
(b) Mr. and Mrs. McEachern
(c) Rev. Hightower
(d) Miss Burden

7. Who is Lena's brother?
(a) McKenzie
(b) Matthew
(c) McKinley
(d) Michael

8. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?
(a) That Hightower was murdered.
(b) That Joe Christmas was murdered.
(c) That Miss Burden was murdered
(d) That Lucas Burch was murdered.

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

10. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
(a) He eats breakfast and reads his magazine cover-to-cover.
(b) He picks some berries for a treat.
(c) He takes another nap.
(d) He writes in his diary.

11. 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?
(a) Christmas
(b) Lucas Burch
(c) Former minister Hightower
(d) Brown

12. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?
(a) Because of the scandal caused by his wife
(b) Because he lacked the proper credentials
(c) Because he was not technically savvy
(d) Because he took too many vacations

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

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

15. Whose services does Christmas use many times over the years?
(a) Plumbers
(b) Prositutes
(c) Electricians
(d) Dry cleaners

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Mr. McEachern calls Bobbie a harlot?

2. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?

3. Byron takes Lena to a _______________ so she can spend the night.

4. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

5. What happens as Christmas comes to in Bobbie's room?

(see the answer keys)

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