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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. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?
(a) Memphis
(b) Choir practice
(c) Out to dinner
(d) Shopping
2. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?
(a) His Bible
(b) All the money that Mrs. McEachern has hidden
(c) Food for a long trip
(d) Enough clean clothes for a long weekend
3. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
(a) Because they have had disastrous experiences with women before.
(b) Because they have anti-social personalities
(c) Because man is more afraid of change than of the troubles he already has experienced and those familiar to him.
(d) Because they do not like team events.
4. What does Christmas do when he earns some more money?
(a) He returns to the restaurant and pays the waitress the balance of what he owed for his pie and coffee.
(b) He takes his friends out drinking.
(c) He buys some girlie magazines.
(d) He goes to a movie.
5. Why does Joe Christmas refrain from beating Joe Brown when he could have easily killed him the night in the cabin?
(a) Because Joe Brown overpowers Joe Christmas
(b) Because Joe Christmas does not have the heart of a killer
(c) Because Joe Christmas really wants to kill Miss Burden
(d) Because Joe Brown is Joe Christmas' best friend
Short Answer Questions
1. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?
2. What does Christmas do instead of having sex with the girl when it is his turn?
3. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
4. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
5. Where do Christmas and Brown live?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?
2. Why does Christmas wish that McEachern would discover his absence in the house this night and try to stop him?
3. The author uses the literary technique of a flashback at this point in the book. What purpose does this serve?
4. Why does Christmas take Mrs. McEachern's hidden money as she watches him do it?
5. Why does Christmas think that his killing McEachern will make him seem heroic in Bobbie's eyes?
6. What internal conflict does Christmas begin to experience this night?
7. What are Byron Bunch's first impressions of Joe Christmas?
8. Why does the fourteen-year-old Christmas beat the Negro girl instead of having sex with her like the other boys do?
9. Why are the people of Jefferson not sure that Reverend Hightower is interested in them?
10. How do the other men at the planing mill learn more about Christmas' background?
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