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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. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?
(a) Because he is an itinerant
(b) Because he never has been any good
(c) Because he has murderous eyes
(d) Because he has Negro blood

2. What does Christmas do as he stands underneath Miss Burden's bedroom window?
(a) He yells obscenities at her.
(b) He strips himself of the undergarment he wears.
(c) He serenades her.
(d) He throws rocks at her window.

3. Why is Joe ashamed when he places an order for pie and coffee?
(a) He is too young to drink coffee.
(b) He spills the coffee on his shirt.
(c) He stutters when he talks.
(d) He does not have enough money.

4. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?
(a) Some clean clothes
(b) A tray of food
(c) A Bible
(d) Some hot chocolate

5. What does Christmas do when he earns some more money?
(a) He returns to the restaurant and pays the waitress the balance of what he owed for his pie and coffee.
(b) He goes to a movie.
(c) He buys some girlie magazines.
(d) He takes his friends out drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the janitor take Christmas?

2. What does Byron tell Hightower has happened at the Burden house?

3. Christmas walks into the woods and reaches a point by a small stream where he ___________________.

4. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?

5. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Christmas take Mrs. McEachern's hidden money as she watches him do it?

2. What internal conflict does Christmas begin to experience this night?

3. Why does Christmas lose control when he sees Bobbie with another man?

4. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the North as it is in the South?

5. Why are the people of Jefferson not sure that Reverend Hightower is interested in them?

6. How does the dietician attempt to thwart disaster in the toothpaste incident?

7. Two men give Lena a ride in their wagon but one of them is especially concerned about what people might say. What misgivings do the men have about the situation?

8. How does Lena rationalize the fact that Lucas has not yet sent for her?

9. Why does Christmas know that something is going to happen to him on this night?

10. Why does Christmas wish that McEachern would discover his absence in the house this night and try to stop him?

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