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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is Christmas finally able to relax and sleep?
(a) In an abandoned mine
(b) In a ditch
(c) In an old cabin
(d) In the wagon of a stranger

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

5. How does the fading afternoon light seem to Hightower?
(a) sad
(b) sentimental
(c) audible
(d) rosy

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

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

8. What does Byron Bunch tell Hightower he is going to do with the cabin on Miss Burden's property?
(a) Move Lena in so she can have her baby in peace
(b) Expand the whiskey business
(c) Use it as a storeroom
(d) Sell drugs

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

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

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

12. Who does Byron bring to Hightower's house?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Hines
(b) Lucas Burch
(c) Lena's parents
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Gould

13. What does Christmas trade a black woman for when he is on the run?
(a) food
(b) shoes
(c) money
(d) a Bible

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hines reveal to Hightower?

2. Of what does Hightower think his mother died?

3. What does Christmas eat while on the run?

4. Why did Hightower's grandfather never visit his son's home?

5. What does Christmas do on the side without telling Miss Burden?

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