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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?
(a) In seclusion at his home
(b) In a bar
(c) Fishing
(d) At the library
2. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.
(a) twenty-years-old
(b) ten-years-old
(c) fourteen-years-old
(d) eighteen-years-old
3. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?
(a) So she can pay them for the ride
(b) So she can give them directions
(c) So she can rest awhile
(d) So she can find Lucas
4. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?
(a) vodka
(b) whiskey
(c) rum
(d) gin
5. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To be the priest at the Catholic Church
(b) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church
(c) To teach Sunday School
(d) To lead the church choir
Short Answer Questions
1. How much older than Lena is McKinley?
2. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?
3. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
4. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?
5. What is the demeanor of the answer to #13?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the North as it is in the South?
2. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?
3. The author uses the literary technique of a flashback at this point in the book. What purpose does this serve?
4. Why does Christmas wish that McEachern would discover his absence in the house this night and try to stop him?
5. Why has Lena left her home in Alabama?
6. Why is Christmas attracted to Bobbie?
7. How does Lena rationalize the fact that Lucas has not yet sent for her?
8. What is the irony of McEachern beating Christmas for not memorizing his catechism lesson?
9. Why are the people of Jefferson not sure that Reverend Hightower is interested in them?
10. Why does Christmas think that his killing McEachern will make him seem heroic in Bobbie's eyes?
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