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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Brown give to the Negro boy in the woods?
(a) The threat of a beating if the boy tells about Brown's location
(b) A harmonica to play so he will not be scared in the dark woods
(c) A note asking for the reward money to be brought to Brown in the woods
(d) A piece of candy he had in his pocket

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

7. Who moves into the cabin with Christmas?
(a) Lena Grove
(b) Lukas Burch
(c) Hightower
(d) Byron Brown

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

9. Instead of leaving town like the sheriff thinks he will do, what does Byron do that night?
(a) He stays with a friend.
(b) He finishes packing his household goods.
(c) He hides outside the cabin and watches Brown arrive and then leave quickly by the back door.
(d) He goes to the bar to say goodbye to his buddies.

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

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

12. What does the old woman instinctively know about Christmas without even seeing him?
(a) That he is a murderer
(b) That he is not capable of murder
(c) That he is their grandson
(d) That he will be hanged for his crime

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

14. How has Hightower always perceived his parents?
(a) As two people very much in love
(b) As two ghosts inhabiting the same house
(c) As the best parents a child could ever have
(d) As good business partners

15. A negro awakens the sheriff at his home to tell him that a white man has terrorized some black people ____________.
(a) at the sawmill
(b) at church
(c) at a bus station
(d) at a restaurant

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the townspeople want to do with Christmas?

2. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?

3. What does Byron do when he returns to town?

4. Where is Christmas finally able to relax and sleep?

5. How is Christmas killed?

(see the answer keys)

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