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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. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan
(b) A group of thugs
(c) The Mafia
(d) The church elders

2. Where is Christmas headed with his three friends?
(a) To a deserted sawmill
(b) To the local bar
(c) To the next town
(d) To the river

3. What does Bobbie call Christmas?
(a) A liability
(b) A juvenile
(c) A nigger
(d) A fraud

4. What does Christmas do when he has no money to pay the answer to #112?
(a) He tells them he is of Negro blood and they chase him away with no thought of payment.
(b) They tell him to use a credit card.
(c) They call the authorities on him.
(d) They tell him that they will take a check.

5. What does Mr. McEachern make Christmas do later in the day after the punishment?
(a) He makes Christmas stay in his room for the rest of the weekend.
(b) He makes Christmas kneel on the floor by his bed to pray.
(c) He makes Christmas apologize.
(d) He makes Christmas vow that he will do better.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?

2. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?

3. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?

4. What does Christmas do with the waitress?

5. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the fourteen-year-old Christmas beat the Negro girl instead of having sex with her like the other boys do?

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

5. Why do the townspeople believe that the former Reverend Hightower's wife had disgraced him?

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

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

8. Why does Byron Bunch spend so much time at his job at the planing mill?

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

10. How does the dietician attempt to thwart disaster in the toothpaste incident?

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