Light In August Quizzes

Light In August Quiz 1

1 Why is Armstid with Winterbottom when Lena passes?
It is a social visit

Armstid wants to buy a cultivator from Winterbottom

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

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

Memphis

Nashville

Montgomery
3 How do the men realize that Christmas has quit?
They notice that Brown is abnormally quiet

The foreman tells them

The sawdust pile gets backed up

Byron tells everyone that he was arrested for Joanna Bundren's murder
4 What is Lena especially excited to buy with Martha Armstid's money?
Shoes

Cornbread

Shoeblack

Sardines
5 What does Christmas do after learning about menstruation?
He sells his cow

He kills a sheep

He vomits

He attacks a prostitute
6 What state does Lena start her journey in?
Tennessee

Arkansas

Alabama

Mississippi
7 How does McEachern know that Christmas sold his heifer?
Mrs. McEachern tells him

The neighbor that bought the cow tells him

He finds a new suit that Christmas bought

He always knows when Christmas is lying
8 What do the men in the mill remark about Brown?
He is much quieter than usual on Mondays

He wears especially nice clothes to work

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

He always curses
9 Why does Joe Christmas go into the dietitian's room?
To eat some of her toothpaste

To steal some of her candy

To hide from the janitor

To smell her clothes
10 What services does Hightower offer after he must leave the church?
Personal bible study lessons

Art lessons and photograph developing

Voice lessons

Child birthing for the poor
11 What is Brown's role in his partnership with Christmas?
He is the lookout when Christmas sells the alcohol

He brews the alcohol

He brings the alcohol to town

He guards the brewery
12 How much is the reward for capturing Joanna's killer?
Five hundred dollars

One thousand dollars

There is no reward

One hundred dollars
13 Why is Byron alone when Lena Grove comes to the mill?
Everyone else has gone to town for their lunch break

Everyone else has gone to watch the fire

He is the only one who works on Saturday afternoons

He stayed late to finish a task
14 What good deed does Hightower do that starts malicious rumors about him?
He hires an unemployed man to cook for him

He adopts an orphan

He helps a poor black woman through childbirth

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

A prostitute he beats

The dietitian

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 has begun to pray over him

That she wants to kick him off her property
17 How is Hightower's wife identified after her death?
The man she was staying with tells the police

Someone from Jefferson recognized her in the hotel

She left a suicide note

Her name is found on a torn up piece of paper in the room
18 Why won't Lena eat very much for breakfast at the Armstids'?
She is disgusted by everything they offer

She wants to be ladylike

She feels guilty for taking Martha's money

She has morning sickness
19 What does Brown accuse the police of?
Racism

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

Falsifying evidence to convict Christmas of the murder

Stupidity
20 Why won't Byron leave Lena alone in Mrs. Beard's?
He is worried that she is about to give birth

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

He is afraid Burch will find her

He is afraid she'll run away
21 What does Reverend Hightower consider most bitter about his tragedy?
Being left completely alone

Losing his church

Telling the institution for delinquent girls that he can only send half as much money

Having to revert to menial labor
22 How long has Byron lived in Jefferson?
His whole life

Two years

Seven years

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

The sheriff's department

Her nephew

The mayor of Jefferson
24 Why does the dietitian see Christmas everywhere after he witnesses her tryst?
It is concidence

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

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

He wants to get his punishment over with
25 On what does Nathaniel Burden blame the death of his son and father?
His father and son's openness with their views

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

Colonel Sartoris

The racism of the South, and Jefferson especially

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