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

2. Where does the stranger take Christmas?
(a) Memphis
(b) Mottstown
(c) Jefferson
(d) Chicago

3. Why does Lena move into the cabin?
(a) She thinks it is Lucas Burch's house.
(b) She does not want to return home.
(c) Her baby is due soon and she wants to give her child a home.
(d) She is tired and needs a place to rest.

4. How is Christmas killed?
(a) Grimm empties his revolver at Christmas who is hiding behind an overturned table.
(b) Grimm's men all open fire through the windows of the building.
(c) Grimm shoots Christmas as he tries to surrender.
(d) Christmas tries to protect Hightower and steps in front of the bullets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Milly Hines die?

2. Of what does Hightower accuse Byron of doing?

3. How much is the reward for the apprehension of Miss Burden's murderer?

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

5. The sheriff has his men beat a Negro so that he will them what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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."

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

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

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

8. Why are the townspeople anxious to find Miss Burden's killer?

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

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

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