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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 was crazy
(d) That Miss Burden had a lot of enemies

2. 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.

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

4. What is the name of the old couple who lives in Mottstown?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Bowden
(b) Mr. and Mrs. Walker
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Hines

5. What favor does Byron ask of Hightower?
(a) To talk to Christmas about the murder of Miss Burden
(b) To bring his medical book to the cabin and deliver Lena's baby
(c) To consider practicing as a minister once again
(d) To lend him enough money to leave town

6. 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 knows that he has no way of repaying Hightower for his kindness.
(c) He realizes that he has been in denial that Lena has borne another man's child.
(d) Byron's former wife had died during childbirth.

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

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

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

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

11. 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 minister's frock
(d) A business suit

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

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

14. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?
(a) Because she is more intelligent than any of them
(b) Because she is too eccentric
(c) Because she never married
(d) Because she associates with Negroes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What final horror is inflicted on Christmas before he dies?

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

3. What does Brown give to the Negro boy in the woods?

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

5. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?

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