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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.
(a) t-shirt and jeans
(b) suit pants, white shirt and bow tie
(c) sweats
(d) formal suit and suspenders

2. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?
(a) Because he has a violent temper
(b) Because Miss Burden had been praying over him
(c) Because he is on a new medication
(d) Because he is drunk

3. 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 Lucas Burch was murdered.
(c) That Miss Burden was murdered
(d) That Hightower was murdered.

4. 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

5. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because she is an abolitionist
(b) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
(c) Because it is none of her business
(d) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden

6. What do the men do to Christmas?
(a) They let him leave without incident.
(b) They promise not to inform on him.
(c) They give him a head start.
(d) They beat him senseless.

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

8. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(b) He makes him clean out the stalls.
(c) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(d) He berates him verbally.

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

10. Who does McKinley think is the father of Lena's baby?
(a) Lucas Burch
(b) Larry MacKenzie
(c) Mike Bowers
(d) Carlton Howard

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

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

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

14. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?
(a) She is looking for the father of her child.
(b) She is taking a short cut.
(c) She is lost.
(d) She likes to take walks.

15. What does Christmas do when he earns some more money?
(a) He goes to a movie.
(b) He buys some girlie magazines.
(c) He returns to the restaurant and pays the waitress the balance of what he owed for his pie and coffee.
(d) He takes his friends out drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?

2. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

3. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?

4. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?

5. Where do Christmas and Brown live?

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