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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Volunteering at the hospital
(b) Selling whiskey illegally
(c) Working the night shift
(d) Driving a cab

3. What does Mr. McEachern make Christmas do later in the day after the punishment?
(a) He makes Christmas vow that he will do better.
(b) He makes Christmas kneel on the floor by his bed to pray.
(c) He makes Christmas stay in his room for the rest of the weekend.
(d) He makes Christmas apologize.

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

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

6. What does Christmas do when he realizes that the waitress sleeps with other men for money?
(a) He says that it does not bother him.
(b) He says he wants her to stop.
(c) He hits her and breaks down sobbing.
(d) He never talks to her again.

7. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?
(a) Bobbie is not there.
(b) Bobbie is not packed yet.
(c) He did not know Bobbie would have so many suitcases.
(d) He finds her employers and two other men in her room.

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

9. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?
(a) Chop more wood for the house
(b) Learn how to farm
(c) Memorize his catechism studies
(d) Become a better fisherman

10. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?
(a) Out to dinner
(b) Memphis
(c) Choir practice
(d) Shopping

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

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

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

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

15. What are the men in the room discussing?
(a) What would make McEachern so mad
(b) Whether or not Christmas has killed McEachern
(c) Why Christmas loves Bobbie
(d) Whether Bobbie should go with Christmas

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas

2. Where do Christmas and Brown live?

3. Why does Christmas decide to sleep in the stables instead of the cabin?

4. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?

5. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

(see the answer keys)

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