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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Byron do when he returns to town?
2. What happens to Hightower after the delivery of the baby?
3. Why does Hightower think he let down the people of Jefferson?
4. Why does Byron need Hightower to get involved with Christmas' plight?
5. What do the townspeople want to do with Christmas?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Hightower so upset that Byron has asked for his help with the situations regarding Lena and Christmas?
2. What does Hightower finally realize as he sits at his window watching the fading light?
3. Why does Christmas refuse to marry Miss Burden and raise a family?
4. Explain this statement made by Christmas: "Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words."
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 Christmas feel he will be safe at Miss Burden's place?
7. Why are the townspeople anxious to find Miss Burden's killer?
8. How does Faulkner show that women are more realistic and more forgiving in this chapter?
9. New life has significance in more than one way in this chapter. Explain.
10. Why does Byron force an encounter with Brown after Brown flees from Lena in the cabin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Faulkner uses the literary technique of flashback in this novel. Note the flashback instances and describe them briefly. What is the purpose of using this technique? What do they provide the reader? What would the reader not know about this story if the flashbacks were not included?
Essay Topic 2
Explain the mixed feelings Christmas must have when he trades the woman for the shoes of the black man and can feel his black blood manifesting itself in the physical world.
Essay Topic 3
The town of Jefferson seems to be filled with misfits. This is not uncommon in the Southern Gothic style of literature which Faulkner writes. Why do you think there are so many unusual or eccentric characters? Could the story be told with more average characters or is it necessary to populate the town with eccentrics? Explain in context with other Southern Gothic literature with which you may be familiar.
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