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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 Christmas do when the horse he is riding back to town runs out of energy?
(a) He trots the horse into town.
(b) He walks the horse back to the barn.
(c) He abandons the horse and runs to town.
(d) He rests while the horse rests.

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

3. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.
(a) plot reversal
(b) flashback
(c) chronological manipulation
(d) timeline redux

4. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
(a) Rev. Hightower
(b) The janitor
(c) Miss Burden
(d) Mr. and Mrs. McEachern

5. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?
(a) He finds her employers and two other men in her room.
(b) He did not know Bobbie would have so many suitcases.
(c) Bobbie is not there.
(d) Bobbie is not packed yet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as Christmas comes to in Bobbie's room?

2. Whose services does Christmas use many times over the years?

3. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?

4. Who is Lena's brother?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?

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

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

8. What does the dietician's pink toothpaste symbolize for Christmas?

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

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

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