2. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
(a) Because they have anti-social personalities
(b) Because they do not like team events.
(c) Because they have had disastrous experiences with women before.
(d) Because man is more afraid of change than of the troubles he already has experienced and those familiar to him.

3. Why does Joe Christmas refrain from beating Joe Brown when he could have easily killed him the night in the cabin?
(a) Because Joe Christmas does not have the heart of a killer
(b) Because Joe Christmas really wants to kill Miss Burden
(c) Because Joe Brown is Joe Christmas' best friend
(d) Because Joe Brown overpowers Joe Christmas

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

5. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas
(a) That he is too old to stay in this orphanage
(b) That he will never be adopted
(c) That he is a nigger and will have to be sent to a nigger orphanage
(d) That he will be adopted soon

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

7. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?
(a) Because he does not want her making a fool of herself in front of the whole town.
(b) Because he wants her to like him.
(c) Because he wants Lena to return home.
(d) Because he wants Lena to stop poking around in things that are not her business.

8. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she is incoherent
(b) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(c) That she is still alive
(d) That her head has been almost severed from her body

9. What does Christmas do when he asks the waitress out and she wants to return home because she has her monthly period?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He hits her, runs away to the woods and vomits.
(c) He never talks to her again.
(d) He tells her that they can make a date for another night.

10. Where do Christmas and Brown live?
(a) In the cabin on Miss Burden's property
(b) In a rented house
(c) In a studio apartment
(d) In a hotel

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

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

13. What happens when Mr. McEachern calls Bobbie a harlot?
(a) Mr. McEachern apologizes to Bobbie.
(b) Christmas breaks a chair over his head.
(c) Christmas apologizes to Bobbie.
(d) Christmas takes Bobbie away from the situation.

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

15. What is the intention of the four boys?
(a) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.
(b) They want to get drunk.
(c) They are going to have sex with a Negro girl waiting inside the sawmill.
(d) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.