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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. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.
(a) t-shirt and jeans
(b) sweats
(c) suit pants, white shirt and bow tie
(d) formal suit and suspenders

2. What does Christmas do with the waitress?
(a) They go to the movies.
(b) They meet two nights a week to have sex.
(c) They go out drinking in another town.
(d) They sing in the church choir.

3. How did Mrs. Hightower die?
(a) She took an overdose of sleeping pills.
(b) She had a heart attack.
(c) She was in a car accident.
(d) She either fell or jumped from a Memphis hotel room.

4. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That her head has been almost severed from her body
(b) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(c) That she is still alive
(d) That she is incoherent

5. What does Bobbie do that lets Christmas know that she does not want to marry him?
(a) She tells him that she enjoys being a whore.
(b) She refuses to pack her clothes.
(c) She throws away his money and screams at him.
(d) She slams a door in his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

2. What does Mr. McEachern make Christmas do later in the day after the punishment?

3. What does Christmas do with the alcohol in the tins?

4. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

5. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the other men at the planing mill learn more about Christmas' background?

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

3. Why does the dietician set out to destroy Christmas after the toothpaste incident?

4. Why is Byron so skittish as he leads Lena through town to get her settled in a boardinghouse?

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

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

7. Why does Byron Bunch spend so much time at his job at the planing mill?

8. Joe leaves the whorehouse and enters "the street which was to run for fifteen years." What is the significance of this statement?

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

10. Why do the townspeople believe that the former Reverend Hightower's wife had disgraced him?

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