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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The baby's first cry also has a strong emotional release for Byron. Why?
(a) Byron's former wife had died during childbirth.
(b) He knows that he has no way of repaying Hightower for his kindness.
(c) The child will be another bastard born in a difficult time in the South.
(d) He realizes that he has been in denial that Lena has borne another man's child.

2. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
(a) That the songs are chosen for specific reasons
(b) That he does not like the new songs he hears
(c) That the townspeople plan on crucifying Christmas
(d) That the organ desperately needs tuning

3. How do the authorities know where Christmas is hiding?
(a) He is seen running to his hiding place.
(b) Jim Brown tells out of vengeance.
(c) Christmas gives himself up.
(d) Some nosy neighbors call the police.

4. What does the old man holler out while waiting on the train to Jefferson?
(a) Hell won't have this mess!
(b) Saints be praised!
(c) Hellfire and brimstone!
(d) Bitchery and abomination!

5. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?
(a) Thirty-years old
(b) Twenty-five years old
(c) Forty-one years old
(d) Fifty-three years old

6. How does Milly Hines die?
(a) In a car accident
(b) By taking sleeping pills
(c) Giving birth to Christmas
(d) In a house fire

7. The sheriff has his men beat a Negro so that he will them what?
(a) That Christmas and Brown lived in the cabin
(b) That no one would ever hurt Miss Burden
(c) That Miss Burden had a lot of enemies
(d) That Miss Burden was crazy

8. Of what does Hightower accuse Byron of doing?
(a) Initiating an inappropriate relationship with the pregnant Lena
(b) Hiding the whereabouts of Lena's former lover
(c) Running bootleg whiskey with Christmas
(d) Selling out Christmas to help his pregnant girlfriend's lover get the thousand-dollar reward

9. Who is the National Guard soldier who stakes out Christmas with his troops?
(a) Calvin Burden
(b) Joe Brown
(c) Lucas Burch
(d) Percy Grimm

10. What does Christmas do on the side without telling Miss Burden?
(a) Takes art classes
(b) Sells drugs
(c) Sells whiskey
(d) Sees other women

11. What are the townspeople eager for over Miss Burden's death?
(a) vengeance
(b) a conviction
(c) the process of justice
(d) a suspect

12. Of what does Hightower think his mother died?
(a) Cancer
(b) Malnutrition
(c) Heart trouble
(d) Diabetes

13. Who do the townspeople think inspired Christmas to attempt an escape?
(a) Byron
(b) Lena
(c) Mrs. Hines
(d) Hightower

14. What final horror is inflicted on Christmas before he dies?
(a) His throat is slashed.
(b) He is lynched.
(c) Percy Grimm castrates him.
(d) He must watch as his grandmother is stabbed.

15. What does Hightower learn when he returns to town?
(a) That Byron has admitted to murdering Miss Burden
(b) That Byron wants to see Christmas hanged
(c) That Byron has quit his job and left town without saying goodbye
(d) That Byron has stolen money from his Bible

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the stranger take Christmas?

2. How much is the reward for the apprehension of Miss Burden's murderer?

3. A negro awakens the sheriff at his home to tell him that a white man has terrorized some black people ____________.

4. What happens to Hightower after the delivery of the baby?

5. What does Byron Bunch tell Hightower he is going to do with the cabin on Miss Burden's property?

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