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

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

3. How has Hightower always perceived his parents?
(a) As good business partners
(b) As two ghosts inhabiting the same house
(c) As the best parents a child could ever have
(d) As two people very much in love

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

5. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?
(a) He runs away from town as fast as he can.
(b) He shows up in town, idenitifies Christmas as the murderer and claims the reward.
(c) He admits to killing Miss Burden.
(d) He tries to get word to Christmas that the sheriff is looking for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Burden insist that Christmas do every day to prove his faithfulness?

2. Who is the National Guard soldier who stakes out Christmas with his troops?

3. What favor does Byron ask of Hightower?

4. What does the deputy tell the sheriff about Lena?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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