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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 Hightower's grandfather wear during the Civil War?
(a) A plain pair of pants and simple shirt
(b) A minister's frock
(c) A foreign uniform
(d) A business suit

2. What does Brown give to the Negro boy in the woods?
(a) A piece of candy he had in his pocket
(b) The threat of a beating if the boy tells about Brown's location
(c) A note asking for the reward money to be brought to Brown in the woods
(d) A harmonica to play so he will not be scared in the dark woods

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

4. What does Christmas eat while on the run?
(a) nuts
(b) rotten fruit and hard corn
(c) berries
(d) cheese and bread

5. What does the old woman instinctively know about Christmas without even seeing him?
(a) That he is their grandson
(b) That he will be hanged for his crime
(c) That he is not capable of murder
(d) That he is a murderer

Short Answer Questions

1. Christmas finds that Miss Burden's behavior is like that of a what?

2. How does Milly Hines die?

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

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

5. What favor does Byron ask of Hightower?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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."

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

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

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

10. How does Christmas know that he has run far enough for now?

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