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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. Who is Christmas meeting on this night?
(a) His real father
(b) His drug dealer
(c) His best friend
(d) His girlfriend
2. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?
(a) So she can give them directions
(b) So she can pay them for the ride
(c) So she can rest awhile
(d) So she can find Lucas
3. Where does Lena go the next morning?
(a) She takes a train to Atlanta.
(b) She tries to get a job at the general store.
(c) She gets a wagon ride to Jefferson.
(d) She hitches a ride back home.
4. What is the demeanor of the answer to #13?
(a) Intelligent and serious
(b) Proud and contemptuous
(c) Easygoing and happy
(d) The life of the party
5. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?
(a) Because he is an itinerant
(b) Because he has murderous eyes
(c) Because he has Negro blood
(d) Because he never has been any good
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?
2. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
3. What does the answer to #65 call the dietician's problem with the Christmas situation?
4. How much older than Lena is McKinley?
5. What does Christmas do when he has no money to pay the answer to #112?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the details of the murder as told by Byron in this chapter?
2. Why does Christmas think that his killing McEachern will make him seem heroic in Bobbie's eyes?
3. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the North as it is in the South?
4. How does the dietician attempt to thwart disaster in the toothpaste incident?
5. Why does Christmas sleep in the stables that night?
6. Why does the fourteen-year-old Christmas beat the Negro girl instead of having sex with her like the other boys do?
7. What is the irony of McEachern beating Christmas for not memorizing his catechism lesson?
8. Why does Byron regret telling Lena that the man in town named Joe Brown is the man she knows as Lucas Burch?
9. Why do the townspeople believe that the former Reverend Hightower's wife had disgraced him?
10. Why does Byron Bunch spend so much time at his job at the planing mill?
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