2. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?
(a) A neighbor
(b) A sheriff's deputy
(c) A drunken man
(d) A policeman

3. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because it is none of her business
(b) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
(c) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden
(d) Because she is an abolitionist

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

2. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?

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

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

5. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Christmas attracted to Bobbie?

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

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

5. What revelations does Brown share when he shows up in town after the murder?

6. Two men give Lena a ride in their wagon but one of them is especially concerned about what people might say. What misgivings do the men have about the situation?

7. What is the irony of McEachern beating Christmas for not memorizing his catechism lesson?

8. Why does Christmas take Mrs. McEachern's hidden money as she watches him do it?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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