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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?
(a) Enough clean clothes for a long weekend
(b) His Bible
(c) All the money that Mrs. McEachern has hidden
(d) Food for a long trip

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

4. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?
(a) Makeup
(b) Perfume
(c) Pink toothpaste
(d) Talcum powder

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

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

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

8. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 7
(d) 5

9. 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 likes to take walks.
(d) She is lost.

10. 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 still alive
(c) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(d) That she is incoherent

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

12. How much older than Lena is McKinley?
(a) 20 years
(b) 7 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 13 years

13. 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 get drunk.
(c) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.
(d) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.

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

15. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?
(a) He and Brown are partners in the whiskey business.
(b) He is leaving town.
(c) He got a better offer from another mill.
(d) He is bored with the work at the mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose services does Christmas use many times over the years?

2. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

3. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?

4. What does Mr. McEachern make Christmas do later in the day after the punishment?

5. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.

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