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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 Christmas do when he leaves the house?
(a) He asks his stepmother for more money.
(b) He runs and runs for fifteen years.
(c) He goes back home to ask for forgiveness.
(d) He goes to the sheriff's office to confess to killing McEachern.

2. Whose services does Christmas use many times over the years?
(a) Prositutes
(b) Plumbers
(c) Dry cleaners
(d) Electricians

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

4. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?
(a) Become a better fisherman
(b) Chop more wood for the house
(c) Learn how to farm
(d) Memorize his catechism studies

5. Who does the dietician approach to exact her revenge on Christmas?
(a) the school nurse
(b) the principal
(c) the janitor
(d) the math teacher

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Joe ashamed when he places an order for pie and coffee?

2. What does Bobbie call Christmas?

3. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?

4. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?

5. Christmas is out late with his friends despite the fact that he knows that McEachern will punish him when he gets home. How will Christmas be punished?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?

2. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the North as it is in the South?

3. 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?

4. Why is Christmas attracted to Bobbie?

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

6. Why does the dietician set out to destroy Christmas after the toothpaste incident?

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

8. Why has Lena left her home in Alabama?

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

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

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