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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 old man holler out while waiting on the train to Jefferson?
(a) Saints be praised!
(b) Bitchery and abomination!
(c) Hell won't have this mess!
(d) Hellfire and brimstone!

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

3. What does Byron do when he returns to town?
(a) Takes all his money out of the bank
(b) Donates all his money to the church
(c) Tells his landlady that he is moving
(d) Buys a new suit

4. What does Christmas trade a black woman for when he is on the run?
(a) a Bible
(b) shoes
(c) food
(d) money

5. What does Hightower learn when he returns to town?
(a) That Byron wants to see Christmas hanged
(b) That Byron has quit his job and left town without saying goodbye
(c) That Byron has admitted to murdering Miss Burden
(d) That Byron has stolen money from his Bible

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Miss Burden opens up about her family history?

2. What do the townspeople want to do with Christmas?

3. What does Miss Burden leave out for Christmas every Saturday?

4. A negro awakens the sheriff at his home to tell him that a white man has terrorized some black people ____________.

5. What are the townspeople eager for over Miss Burden's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Percy Grimm castrate Christmas while he is still alive?

4. How does Faulkner show that women are more realistic and more forgiving in this chapter?

5. Why is Hightower so upset that Byron has asked for his help with the situations regarding Lena and Christmas?

6. Why do the Negroes of Mottstown support Mr. Hines who preaches white supremacy in Negro churches?

7. Other than the fact that he is a good person, why does Hightower feel the need to help Christmas?

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

9. 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?

10. Explain this statement made by Christmas: "Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words."

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