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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) Christmas soils his clothes.
(b) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(c) Christmas falls asleep.
(d) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.

4. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Kennedy
(b) Joe Miller
(c) Joe Louis
(d) Joe Christmas

5. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?
(a) Joe Christmas and Joe Brown
(b) Lena and Joe Christmas
(c) Lena and Lucas Burch
(d) Lena and Joe Brown

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

7. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
(a) He picks some berries for a treat.
(b) He writes in his diary.
(c) He takes another nap.
(d) He eats breakfast and reads his magazine cover-to-cover.

8. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The church elders
(b) A group of thugs
(c) The Mafia
(d) The Ku Klux Klan

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

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

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

12. What does Byron tell Hightower has happened at the Burden house?
(a) A room has been added
(b) A fire
(c) A big party
(d) A drug raid

13. What happens as Christmas comes to in Bobbie's room?
(a) He counts his money.
(b) He hears Bobbie and the others prepare to depart.
(c) He wonders what happened to McEachern.
(d) He thinks he is dead.

14. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?
(a) Money
(b) A deed
(c) Letters
(d) A diary

15. What does Christmas do as he stands underneath Miss Burden's bedroom window?
(a) He throws rocks at her window.
(b) He strips himself of the undergarment he wears.
(c) He yells obscenities at her.
(d) He serenades her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?

2. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

3. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?

4. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?

5. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

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