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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lena's hometown?
(a) Montgomery, Alabama
(b) Memphis, Tennessee
(c) Doane's Mill, Alabama
(d) Mobile, Alabama

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

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

4. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.
(a) cut
(b) rash
(c) scar
(d) mole

5. What does Christmas do instead of having sex with the girl when it is his turn?
(a) He beats her.
(b) He just pretends to have sex with her.
(c) He helps her to get away.
(d) He just talks to her.

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

7. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?
(a) A bank note
(b) A map
(c) A knife
(d) A gun

8. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?
(a) Because of the scandal caused by his wife
(b) Because he took too many vacations
(c) Because he lacked the proper credentials
(d) Because he was not technically savvy

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

10. What does Christmas do after he awakens?
(a) He cooks the fish he has caught.
(b) He writes some letters that he has been been delaying.
(c) He goes to a small store nearby to buy food for breakfast.
(d) He decides to just spend the day daydreaming at the stream.

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

12. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?
(a) So she can pay them for the ride
(b) So she can find Lucas
(c) So she can rest awhile
(d) So she can give them directions

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

2. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?

3. Why is Joe ashamed when he places an order for pie and coffee?

4. Christmas is out late with his friends despite the fact that he knows that McEachern will punish him when he gets home. How will Christmas be punished?

5. What does Byron tell Hightower has happened at the Burden house?

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