2. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?
(a) Some clean clothes
(b) A Bible
(c) Some hot chocolate
(d) A tray of food

3. 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 beats her.
(c) He just pretends to have sex with her.
(d) He just talks to her.

4. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.
(a) flashback
(b) chronological manipulation
(c) plot reversal
(d) timeline redux

5. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?
(a) He runs and runs for fifteen years.
(b) He goes back home to ask for forgiveness.
(c) He goes to the sheriff's office to confess to killing McEachern.
(d) He asks his stepmother for more money.

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

7. Why does Mr. McEachern then go to church?
(a) To ask God to rid him of the burden of Christmas.
(b) To set up the hymnals for the next day's services
(c) To expiate his sins
(d) To ask God for help in raising Christmas

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

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

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

11. Why is Christmas attracted to the waitress?
(a) She has a good sense of humor.
(b) She gives him extra marshmallows for his cocoa.
(c) She is small and all the men seem to like her.
(d) She has a great smile.

12. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?
(a) They force Hightower to resign, lock him out of the church and give him momey to relocate.
(b) They tell him to get his act together.
(c) They send him on a much-needed vacation.
(d) They send him to a sanitorium,

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

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

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