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

3. What is Christmas' plan?
(a) He wants to go to college.
(b) He wants to get a job at the sawmill.
(c) He wants to run away with Bobbie and get married.
(d) He wants to apologize to his stepfather.

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

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

6. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?
(a) Because she does not like anybody there.
(b) Because she was evicted.
(c) Because it will soon be a ghost town.
(d) Because she lost her job.

7. What does the answer to #65 call the dietician's problem with the Christmas situation?
(a) disgusting
(b) womanfilth
(c) typical
(d) sinful

8. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?
(a) Cliques
(b) Menstruation
(c) PMS
(d) Going steady

9. What does Bobbie do that lets Christmas know that she does not want to marry him?
(a) She tells him that she enjoys being a whore.
(b) She refuses to pack her clothes.
(c) She throws away his money and screams at him.
(d) She slams a door in his face.

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

11. What does Christmas sell in order to buy a new suit?
(a) Some old coins
(b) A heifer
(c) His stamp collection
(d) Some antique farm equipment

12. Where does Lena go the next morning?
(a) She takes a train to Atlanta.
(b) She gets a wagon ride to Jefferson.
(c) She hitches a ride back home.
(d) She tries to get a job at the general store.

13. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?
(a) vodka
(b) whiskey
(c) rum
(d) gin

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

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