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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much is the reward for the apprehension of Miss Burden's murderer?
(a) Twenty thousand dollars
(b) Five thousand dollars
(c) A thousand dollars
(d) Fifty thousand dollars

2. What happens to Hightower after the delivery of the baby?
(a) He drops the baby on the floor.
(b) He feels better about himself than he has in a long time.
(c) He collapses in exhaustion.
(d) He fights with Byron for bringing him into this situation.

3. What does Byron do when he returns to town?
(a) Donates all his money to the church
(b) Takes all his money out of the bank
(c) Buys a new suit
(d) Tells his landlady that he is moving

4. What happens after Byron approaches Brown near the railroad tracks?
(a) Byron pays Brown to leave town.
(b) The two men struggle and Brown leaps onto a passing train.
(c) The two men struggle and Byron falls onto the train tracks.
(d) Brown agrees to return to town and marry Lena.

5. Why do the townspeople leave the old couple alone?
(a) Because the old couple does not want to be bothered
(b) Because the old woman talks too much
(c) Because the old couple has a contagious disease
(d) Because the man preaches to Negroes and acts crazy in public

6. Why does Lena move into the cabin?
(a) Her baby is due soon and she wants to give her child a home.
(b) She is tired and needs a place to rest.
(c) She thinks it is Lucas Burch's house.
(d) She does not want to return home.

7. What does Miss Burden leave out for Christmas every Saturday?
(a) A meal in the kitchen
(b) A Bible lesson
(c) A to-do list
(d) A paycheck

8. What does Christmas come to understand about women?
(a) Some are always going to be good and some are always going to be bad for you.
(b) When they finally surrender completely, it is going to be in words.
(c) They are all very moody at times.
(d) They are basically the same no matter what their age.

9. How is Christmas killed?
(a) Grimm empties his revolver at Christmas who is hiding behind an overturned table.
(b) Christmas tries to protect Hightower and steps in front of the bullets.
(c) Grimm's men all open fire through the windows of the building.
(d) Grimm shoots Christmas as he tries to surrender.

10. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?
(a) He tries to get word to Christmas that the sheriff is looking for him.
(b) He runs away from town as fast as he can.
(c) He admits to killing Miss Burden.
(d) He shows up in town, idenitifies Christmas as the murderer and claims the reward.

11. What does Hightower's grandfather wear during the Civil War?
(a) A plain pair of pants and simple shirt
(b) A business suit
(c) A foreign uniform
(d) A minister's frock

12. Why did Hightower's grandfather never visit his son's home?
(a) Because he could not leave his farm
(b) Because he thought letters were sufficient
(c) Because the trip was too far
(d) Because his son was an abolitionist

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

14. What does Hightower ask Lena to do when he returns to the cabin later that day?
(a) To marry Byron so the baby will have a father in his life
(b) To not force Byron to stay with her because she has another man's child
(c) To name the baby after him
(d) To let him be the godfather of the new baby

15. Why will Lena not accept Byron's marriage proposal?
(a) Because Byron does not make enough money to support her
(b) Because Byron is sexually unattractive to her
(c) Because she has not seen Joe Brown/Lucas Burch yet
(d) Because Byron is of a different religious belief

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Byron bring to Hightower's house?

2. Who moves into the cabin with Christmas?

3. How do the authorities know where Christmas is hiding?

4. What does Miss Burden insist that Christmas do every day to prove his faithfulness?

5. How does the fading afternoon light seem to Hightower?

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