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

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

3. At whose home does Lena spend the night?
(a) At a rooming house
(b) At the Holiday Inn
(c) Armstid and his wife, Martha's house
(d) At a bed and breakfast inn

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

5. What happens as Christmas comes to in Bobbie's room?
(a) He counts his money.
(b) He wonders what happened to McEachern.
(c) He hears Bobbie and the others prepare to depart.
(d) He thinks he is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Christmas' position in the room is revealed, the dietician accuses him of __________.

2. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why has Lena left her home in Alabama?

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

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

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

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

7. Why is Bobbie attracted to Christmas?

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

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

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

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