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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 the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she is incoherent
(b) That she is still alive
(c) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(d) That her head has been almost severed from her body

2. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Louis
(b) Joe Christmas
(c) Joe Miller
(d) Joe Kennedy

3. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?
(a) White
(b) Miller
(c) Black
(d) Brown

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

5. Where does the janitor take Christmas?
(a) To church
(b) To the movies
(c) To a different orphanage
(d) To a ballgame

Short Answer Questions

1. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

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

3. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?

4. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.

5. Where does Mr. McEachern find Christmas and Bobbie that night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Christmas think that his killing McEachern will make him seem heroic in Bobbie's eyes?

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

6. How do the people get their first indications that something is awry in the Hightower marriage?

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

8. Who does the dietician turn to in her plans to ruin Christmas?

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

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

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