Light in August Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Light in August Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mrs. Hightower die?
(a) She either fell or jumped from a Memphis hotel room.
(b) She took an overdose of sleeping pills.
(c) She was in a car accident.
(d) She had a heart attack.

2. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan
(b) The church elders
(c) The Mafia
(d) A group of thugs

3. What does Christmas do when he has no money to pay the answer to #112?
(a) They call the authorities on him.
(b) They tell him that they will take a check.
(c) He tells them he is of Negro blood and they chase him away with no thought of payment.
(d) They tell him to use a credit card.

4. Who moves into the cabin with Christmas?
(a) Byron Brown
(b) Lena Grove
(c) Hightower
(d) Lukas Burch

5. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.
(a) all the spare cash he can find
(b) some letters he has to mail
(c) a list of errands he has to accomplish today
(d) a girlie/gun magazine, razor, shaving brush and shaving soap

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?

2. Why does Joe Christmas refrain from beating Joe Brown when he could have easily killed him the night in the cabin?

3. What does Christmas do instead of having sex with the girl when it is his turn?

4. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?

5. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

(see the answer key)

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