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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 trots the horse into town.
(c) He walks the horse back to the barn.
(d) He abandons the horse and runs to town.

2. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Louis
(b) Joe Miller
(c) Joe Kennedy
(d) Joe Christmas

3. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?
(a) That he told her that she should go back home.
(b) That he told her that she is just looking for trouble by looking for Lucas Burch.
(c) That he told Lena that Joe Brown is the Lucas Burch she seeks.
(d) That he told her that there is no one in town that fits the description of Lucas Burch.

4. What name does the dietician call Christmas?
(a) filthy bastard
(b) stupid brat
(c) little rascal
(d) nigger bastard

5. How does Christmas escape the McEachern house one night?
(a) He hitches a ride to the nearby bus station.
(b) He leaves when the McEacherns are at church.
(c) He pretends to go to school but runs away.
(d) He shimmies down a rope hanging from his bedroom window.

6. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?
(a) They send him to a sanitorium,
(b) They send him on a much-needed vacation.
(c) They tell him to get his act together.
(d) They force Hightower to resign, lock him out of the church and give him momey to relocate.

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

8. Who is Christmas meeting on this night?
(a) His drug dealer
(b) His real father
(c) His girlfriend
(d) His best friend

9. Christmas is out late with his friends despite the fact that he knows that McEachern will punish him when he gets home. How will Christmas be punished?
(a) McEachern will take away his allowance.
(b) McEachern will beat him.
(c) McEachern will verbally abuse him.
(d) McEachern will ground him.

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

11. Mr. McEachern tells Christmas that the name "Christmas" is _________ and the boy will be called McEachern.
(a) Christian
(b) heathen
(c) too seasonal
(d) too holiday-sounding

12. Joe begins to work very hard at the farm and soon Mr. McEachern gives him a new _________.
(a) motorcycle
(b) heifer
(c) Bible
(d) car

13. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?
(a) He runs and runs for fifteen years.
(b) He goes back home to ask for forgiveness.
(c) He goes to the sheriff's office to confess to killing McEachern.
(d) He asks his stepmother for more money.

14. Where does Mr. McEachern find Christmas and Bobbie that night?
(a) Parked in the woods
(b) At the justice of the peace office
(c) At a bar in town
(d) At a dance at a schoolroom in the country

15. 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) Former minister Hightower
(b) Lucas Burch
(c) Brown
(d) Christmas

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?

2. Where do Christmas and Brown live?

3. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?

4. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?

5. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?

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