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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 does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?
(a) The scarecrow in the vegetable garden
(b) Two tramps scavenging for food
(c) The shadow of Christmas running by to get into an arriving car
(d) Mrs. McEachern walking in the moonlight.

2. Who is Christmas meeting on this night?
(a) His drug dealer
(b) His best friend
(c) His real father
(d) His girlfriend

3. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(b) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(c) He makes him clean out the stalls.
(d) He berates him verbally.

4. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?
(a) He is leaving town.
(b) He is bored with the work at the mill.
(c) He got a better offer from another mill.
(d) He and Brown are partners in the whiskey business.

5. Christmas walks into the woods and reaches a point by a small stream where he ___________________.
(a) goes swimming
(b) whittles for awhile
(c) builds a fire and takes a nap
(d) goes fishing

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the janitor take Christmas?

2. Why does Joe Christmas refrain from beating Joe Brown when he could have easily killed him the night in the cabin?

3. Why is Joe ashamed when he places an order for pie and coffee?

4. Byron tells Hightower that a ______________ discovered the fire at the Burden place yesterday morning.

5. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are Byron Bunch's first impressions of Joe Christmas?

8. Why does Byron regret telling Lena that the man in town named Joe Brown is the man she knows as Lucas Burch?

9. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?

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

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