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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?
(a) Miss Atkins
(b) Lena Grove
(c) Byron Bunch
(d) Joe Christmas

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

4. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?
(a) The bank teller
(b) Lena
(c) The choir director
(d) Miss Burden

5. 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 has a violent temper
(c) Because he is drunk
(d) Because he is on a new medication

6. 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 took too many vacations
(d) Because he was not technically savvy

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

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

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

10. 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

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

12. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(b) Christmas falls asleep.
(c) Christmas soils his clothes.
(d) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.

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

14. Where does the janitor take Christmas?
(a) To church
(b) To the movies
(c) To a different orphanage
(d) To a ballgame

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dietician offer Christmas as a bribe?

2. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?

3. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?

4. What does Christmas do with the waitress?

5. What do the men do to Christmas?

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