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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the townspeople want to do with Christmas?
(a) Lynch him
(b) Increase his bail
(c) Give him a fair trial
(d) Free him

4. What does Mrs. Hines reveal to Hightower?
(a) That she has never been to Jefferson before
(b) That she would like to lead a choir someday
(c) That she respects his position in the community
(d) That Christmas is the bastard son of their deceased daughter, Milly

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

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

7. Where does Christmas go when he escapes from jail and where he is eventually killed?
(a) Miss Burden's house
(b) Hightower's house
(c) The restaurant
(d) The sawmill

8. What does Miss Burden insist that Christmas do every day to prove his faithfulness?
(a) Pick her some flowers
(b) Write her a poem
(c) Check for a love letter in a hollow tree
(d) Bring her chocolates

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

10. Why does Hightower think he let down the people of Jefferson?
(a) Because he was not a very good fund raiser
(b) Because he wanted to allow Negroes to attend services
(c) Because he tried to support church leadership instead of tending to the spiritual needs of the people.
(d) Because he was not very high up in his class at the seminary

11. Why does Brown tell Lena he cannot stay at the cabin?
(a) He does not love her anymore.
(b) He has plans with some friends in town.
(c) He is very busy with securing the reward funds.
(d) He does not think the child is his.

12. What does the deputy tell the sheriff about Lena?
(a) That Joe Brown is also Lucas Burch and the father of Lena's unborn child.
(b) That Lena is nothing but a troublemaker and should be run out of town.
(c) That Lucas Burch is trying to find Lena.
(d) That Lena has asked the deputy to help her find Lucas Burch.

13. To where does Miss Burden make arrangements for Christmas to go?
(a) Back to Chicago
(b) Auto mechanic school
(c) Florida for a vacation
(d) A negro college

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

15. Where does Christmas get a job?
(a) At the dry goods store
(b) At the gas station
(c) At the bus station
(d) At the planing mill

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old man do when he hears that Christmas has killed a white woman?

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

3. How does Milly Hines die?

4. How is Christmas killed?

5. What does the old man holler out while waiting on the train to Jefferson?

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