Light in August Test | Final Test - Medium

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

Light in August Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who is the National Guard soldier who stakes out Christmas with his troops?
(a) Percy Grimm
(b) Lucas Burch
(c) Joe Brown
(d) Calvin Burden

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

3. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
(a) That the organ desperately needs tuning
(b) That he does not like the new songs he hears
(c) That the songs are chosen for specific reasons
(d) That the townspeople plan on crucifying Christmas

4. Where does Christmas go when he escapes from jail and where he is eventually killed?
(a) Miss Burden's house
(b) The restaurant
(c) Hightower's house
(d) The sawmill

5. What does Christmas come to understand about women?
(a) They are all very moody at times.
(b) They are basically the same no matter what their age.
(c) When they finally surrender completely, it is going to be in words.
(d) Some are always going to be good and some are always going to be bad for you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Miss Burden opens up about her family history?

2. What does Christmas do on the side without telling Miss Burden?

3. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?

4. How does the relationship between Christmas and Miss Burden evolve?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the symbolism of the odor in Hightower's house?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Hightower mean when he says the fading afternoon light is audible?

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

(see the answer keys)

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