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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 take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?
(a) A deed
(b) Money
(c) Letters
(d) A diary
2. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Volunteering at the hospital
(b) Driving a cab
(c) Working the night shift
(d) Selling whiskey illegally
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 Byron does not like Miss Burden
(c) Because she is an abolitionist
(d) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
4. What does Christmas do when he realizes that the waitress sleeps with other men for money?
(a) He says he wants her to stop.
(b) He hits her and breaks down sobbing.
(c) He never talks to her again.
(d) He says that it does not bother him.
5. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas
(a) That he will be adopted soon
(b) That he is a nigger and will have to be sent to a nigger orphanage
(c) That he is too old to stay in this orphanage
(d) That he will never be adopted
Short Answer Questions
1. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?
2. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
3. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?
4. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
5. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?
Short Essay Questions
1. What revelations does Brown share when he shows up in town after the murder?
2. Joe leaves the whorehouse and enters "the street which was to run for fifteen years." What is the significance of this statement?
3. Why does Christmas know that something is going to happen to him on this night?
4. Why do the townspeople believe that the former Reverend Hightower's wife had disgraced him?
5. Why does Byron Bunch spend so much time at his job at the planing mill?
6. Why has Lena left her home in Alabama?
7. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?
8. How do the other men at the planing mill learn more about Christmas' background?
9. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the North as it is in the South?
10. Why does Christmas wish that McEachern would discover his absence in the house this night and try to stop him?
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