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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. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?
(a) "nigger's work"
(b) "too damn hard"
(c) "a real back breaker"
(d) "boring"

2. How much older than Lena is McKinley?
(a) 20 years
(b) 7 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 13 years

3. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 7
(d) 5

4. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.
(a) scar
(b) rash
(c) cut
(d) mole

5. Joe begins to work very hard at the farm and soon Mr. McEachern gives him a new _________.
(a) car
(b) motorcycle
(c) heifer
(d) Bible

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?

2. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

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

4. What do the men do to Christmas?

5. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is McEachern's death symbolic in this chapter?

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

3. What are the details of the murder as told by Byron in this chapter?

4. How does trouble find Byron anyway?

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

6. Why does Christmas think that his killing McEachern will make him seem heroic in Bobbie's eyes?

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

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

9. What revelations does Brown share when he shows up in town after the murder?

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

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