Light In August Quizzes

Light In August Quiz 1

By Alice Cullina · Edited by Jordan Berkow · Last reviewed August 14, 2007

1 Why is Armstid with Winterbottom when Lena passes?

Armstid wants to get Winterbottom's advice on a wagon he is going to purchase

It is a social visit

Armstid wants to buy a cultivator from Winterbottom

Armstid wants to buy a team of mules from Winterbottom
2 Where does Hightower's wife die?

Nashville

Jefferson

Memphis

Montgomery
3 How do the men realize that Christmas has quit?

Byron tells everyone that he was arrested for Joanna Bundren's murder

The foreman tells them

They notice that Brown is abnormally quiet

The sawdust pile gets backed up
4 What is Lena especially excited to buy with Martha Armstid's money?

Cornbread

Sardines

Shoeblack

Shoes
5 What does Christmas do after learning about menstruation?

He attacks a prostitute

He vomits

He sells his cow

He kills a sheep
6 What state does Lena start her journey in?

Mississippi

Arkansas

Alabama

Tennessee
7 How does McEachern know that Christmas sold his heifer?

Mrs. McEachern tells him

He finds a new suit that Christmas bought

He always knows when Christmas is lying

The neighbor that bought the cow tells him
8 What do the men in the mill remark about Brown?

He always curses

He is the only one who is rowdy and unclean on Mondays

He is much quieter than usual on Mondays

He wears especially nice clothes to work
9 Why does Joe Christmas go into the dietitian's room?

To smell her clothes

To hide from the janitor

To steal some of her candy

To eat some of her toothpaste
10 What services does Hightower offer after he must leave the church?

Child birthing for the poor

Art lessons and photograph developing

Personal bible study lessons

Voice lessons
11 What is Brown's role in his partnership with Christmas?

He is the lookout when Christmas sells the alcohol

He guards the brewery

He brings the alcohol to town

He brews the alcohol
12 How much is the reward for capturing Joanna's killer?

There is no reward

Five hundred dollars

One thousand dollars

One hundred dollars
13 Why is Byron alone when Lena Grove comes to the mill?

He is the only one who works on Saturday afternoons

Everyone else has gone to town for their lunch break

Everyone else has gone to watch the fire

He stayed late to finish a task
14 What good deed does Hightower do that starts malicious rumors about him?

He helps a poor black woman through childbirth

He hires an unemployed man to cook for him

He adopts an orphan

He supports a charity for delinquent girls
15 From whom does Christmas first learn about menstruation?

Bunch

The dietitian

A prostitute he beats

Hightower
16 What specific factor makes Christmas feel compelled to kill Joanna?

That she lied about her pregnancy

That she is obsessed with his racial makeup

That she wants to kick him off her property

That she has begun to pray over him
17 How is Hightower's wife identified after her death?

Someone from Jefferson recognized her in the hotel

Her name is found on a torn up piece of paper in the room

The man she was staying with tells the police

She left a suicide note
18 Why won't Lena eat very much for breakfast at the Armstids'?

She has morning sickness

She wants to be ladylike

She is disgusted by everything they offer

She feels guilty for taking Martha's money
19 What does Brown accuse the police of?

Stupidity

Racism

Keeping him in jail so that they can capture Christmas and get the reward

Falsifying evidence to convict Christmas of the murder
20 Why won't Byron leave Lena alone in Mrs. Beard's?

He is afraid she'll run away

He doesn't want anyone to tell her about the fire

He is worried that she is about to give birth

He is afraid Burch will find her
21 What does Reverend Hightower consider most bitter about his tragedy?

Losing his church

Being left completely alone

Having to revert to menial labor

Telling the institution for delinquent girls that he can only send half as much money
22 How long has Byron lived in Jefferson?

Two years

Seven years

His whole life

Twenty-five years
23 Who offers the reward for capturing Joanna's killer?

The mayor of Jefferson

The sheriff's department

Byron Burch

Her nephew
24 Why does the dietitian see Christmas everywhere after he witnesses her tryst?

He wants to make her extra tense before he tells on her

He wants to get his punishment over with

He is waiting to see if she is going to tell the matron

It is concidence
25 On what does Nathaniel Burden blame the death of his son and father?

The curse of the black man to be the white man's doom

Colonel Sartoris

His father and son's openness with their views

The racism of the South, and Jefferson especially

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