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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 #65 call the dietician's problem with the Christmas situation?
(a) typical
(b) disgusting
(c) womanfilth
(d) sinful

2. What happens when Mr. McEachern calls Bobbie a harlot?
(a) Christmas breaks a chair over his head.
(b) Christmas apologizes to Bobbie.
(c) Christmas takes Bobbie away from the situation.
(d) Mr. McEachern apologizes to Bobbie.

3. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?
(a) She studies with a friend.
(b) She goes roller skating.
(c) She goes to a dance.
(d) She gets pregnant.

4. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.
(a) a list of errands he has to accomplish today
(b) some letters he has to mail
(c) a girlie/gun magazine, razor, shaving brush and shaving soap
(d) all the spare cash he can find

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 Christmas really wants to kill Miss Burden
(b) Because Joe Brown is Joe Christmas' best friend
(c) Because Joe Christmas does not have the heart of a killer
(d) Because Joe Brown overpowers Joe Christmas

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

2. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?

3. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

4. Joe begins to work very hard at the farm and soon Mr. McEachern gives him a new _________.

5. Where does the janitor take Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Bobbie attracted to Christmas?

2. What drives Lena to keep moving on her quest?

3. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?

4. Why does Christmas know that something is going to happen to him on this night?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Christmas sleep in the stables that night?

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

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