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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 happens after Byron approaches Brown near the railroad tracks?
(a) Brown agrees to return to town and marry Lena.
(b) The two men struggle and Brown leaps onto a passing train.
(c) The two men struggle and Byron falls onto the train tracks.
(d) Byron pays Brown to leave town.

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

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

4. What final horror is inflicted on Christmas before he dies?
(a) He must watch as his grandmother is stabbed.
(b) Percy Grimm castrates him.
(c) He is lynched.
(d) His throat is slashed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?

2. How do the authorities know where Christmas is hiding?

3. What does Hightower ask Lena to do when he returns to the cabin later that day?

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

5. Of what does Hightower think his mother died?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. Explain the irony in Miss Burden's nearly nymphomaniac behavior?

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

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

10. New life has significance in more than one way in this chapter. Explain.

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