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1Why does Lena leave her brother’s house?

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2Who first sees Lena along the road in the novel?

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3How does Reverend Hightower’s wife die?

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4How do Joe Brown and Joe Christmas earn a living after quitting at the mill?

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5What is revealed about Joe Christmas after the fire at the Burden house?

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6What does young Joe Christmas steal from dietician’s room at the orphanage?

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7What does Joe Christmas do when he finds out that Bobbie Allen is a prostitute?

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8What does Joe Christmas purchase with the money from selling the heifer his father gave him?

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9. How does Joe Christmas kill his father at the school dance?

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10Where does Joe first meet Miss Burden?

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11Where is Miss Burden’s family from?

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12What is Miss Burden’s first name?

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13How does Miss Burden try to help Joe Christmas?

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14Where does Lena decide to live?

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15Where is Joe Christmas captured?

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16When is Mr. Hines is arrested?

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17Which of the following is true of Joe Christmas’s biological father?

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18Who does the janitor at the orphanage turn out to be?

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19After Joe’s arrest, what does Byron ask Hightower to do?

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20After Lena gives birth, what does Hightower ask her to do?

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21What does Joe Brown do after his reunion with Lena?

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22What happens after Joe Christmas escapes?

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23What does Percy Grimm do after he kills Joe Christmas?

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24Why did Hightower want to come to Jefferson in the first place?

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25What do Byron and Lena do at the novel’s conclusion?