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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. How does the fading afternoon light seem to Hightower?
(a) rosy
(b) audible
(c) sentimental
(d) sad

2. Who do the townspeople think inspired Christmas to attempt an escape?
(a) Hightower
(b) Lena
(c) Byron
(d) Mrs. Hines

3. The baby's first cry also has a strong emotional release for Byron. Why?
(a) Byron's former wife had died during childbirth.
(b) He knows that he has no way of repaying Hightower for his kindness.
(c) The child will be another bastard born in a difficult time in the South.
(d) He realizes that he has been in denial that Lena has borne another man's child.

4. Of what does Hightower think his mother died?
(a) Cancer
(b) Heart trouble
(c) Diabetes
(d) Malnutrition

5. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?
(a) Twenty-five years old
(b) Thirty-years old
(c) Fifty-three years old
(d) Forty-one years old

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Lena not accept Byron's marriage proposal?

2. What does Brown give to the Negro boy in the woods?

3. Who does Byron bring to Hightower's house?

4. Where does Christmas get a job?

5. What is the name of the old couple who lives in Mottstown?

Short Essay Questions

1. The cries of Lena's newborn child are significant for Byron. Why?

2. Why does Christmas feel he will be safe at Miss Burden's place?

3. What is the symbolism of the odor in Hightower's house?

4. Why does Christmas refuse to marry Miss Burden and raise a family?

5. New life has significance in more than one way in this chapter. Explain.

6. As Christmas runs to avoid the law, he stops at a cabin and trades shoes with a Negro woman. What is the significance of the traded shoes?

7. Why does Byron force an encounter with Brown after Brown flees from Lena in the cabin?

8. Explain the irony in Miss Burden's nearly nymphomaniac behavior?

9. How does Mrs. Hines indirectly cause the death of Christmas, her grandson?

10. Explain why Christmas' arrival in the town of Mottstown means that he has come full circle in his life.

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