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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 is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?
(a) He is a bastard.
(b) He is a fugitive.
(c) He is a thief.
(d) He is part Negro.

2. What is Lena's hometown?
(a) Doane's Mill, Alabama
(b) Montgomery, Alabama
(c) Memphis, Tennessee
(d) Mobile, Alabama

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

4. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?
(a) That he told her that she should go back home.
(b) That he told Lena that Joe Brown is the Lucas Burch she seeks.
(c) That he told her that she is just looking for trouble by looking for Lucas Burch.
(d) That he told her that there is no one in town that fits the description of Lucas Burch.

5. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?
(a) Enough clean clothes for a long weekend
(b) His Bible
(c) All the money that Mrs. McEachern has hidden
(d) Food for a long trip

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Christmas escape the McEachern house one night?

2. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

3. Why had Hightower originally come to town?

4. What does Christmas do when he has no money to pay the answer to #112?

5. Where does Lena go the next morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What drives Lena to keep moving on her quest?

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

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

6. What is Christmas' final act of naivete regarding Bobbie?

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

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

9. Why does Christmas toss away the food Mrs. McEachern brings him after Mr. McEachern has beaten him?

10. What is the symbolism of the polished shoes in this chapter?

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