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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. Why does Brown tell Lena he cannot stay at the cabin?
(a) He is very busy with securing the reward funds.
(b) He does not love her anymore.
(c) He does not think the child is his.
(d) He has plans with some friends in town.

2. Why does Hightower think he let down the people of Jefferson?
(a) Because he tried to support church leadership instead of tending to the spiritual needs of the people.
(b) Because he wanted to allow Negroes to attend services
(c) Because he was not a very good fund raiser
(d) Because he was not very high up in his class at the seminary

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 realizes that he has been in denial that Lena has borne another man's child.
(c) He knows that he has no way of repaying Hightower for his kindness.
(d) The child will be another bastard born in a difficult time in the South.

4. What favor does Byron ask of Hightower?
(a) To consider practicing as a minister once again
(b) To talk to Christmas about the murder of Miss Burden
(c) To lend him enough money to leave town
(d) To bring his medical book to the cabin and deliver Lena's baby

5. How much is the reward for the apprehension of Miss Burden's murderer?
(a) A thousand dollars
(b) Fifty thousand dollars
(c) Twenty thousand dollars
(d) Five thousand dollars

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?

2. What does the old man holler out while waiting on the train to Jefferson?

3. What does Byron Bunch tell Hightower he is going to do with the cabin on Miss Burden's property?

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

5. What does Christmas eat while on the run?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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. What does Hightower mean when he says the fading afternoon light is audible?

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

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

10. What does Hightower finally realize as he sits at his window watching the fading light?

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