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 team of mules from Winterbottom

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

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

Montgomery

Nashville

Memphis
3 How do the men realize that Christmas has quit?
The foreman tells them

The sawdust pile gets backed up

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

They notice that Brown is abnormally quiet
4 What is Lena especially excited to buy with Martha Armstid's money?
Cornbread

Shoes

Sardines

Shoeblack
5 What does Christmas do after learning about menstruation?
He vomits

He kills a sheep

He attacks a prostitute

He sells his cow
6 What state does Lena start her journey in?
Tennessee

Mississippi

Arkansas

Alabama
7 How does McEachern know that Christmas sold his heifer?
He finds a new suit that Christmas bought

He always knows when Christmas is lying

The neighbor that bought the cow tells him

Mrs. McEachern tells him
8 What do the men in the mill remark about Brown?
He wears especially nice clothes to work

He is much quieter than usual on Mondays

He always curses

He is the only one who is rowdy and unclean on Mondays
9 Why does Joe Christmas go into the dietitian's room?
To hide from the janitor

To steal some of her candy

To smell her clothes

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

Personal bible study lessons

Child birthing for the poor

Art lessons and photograph developing
11 What is Brown's role in his partnership with Christmas?
He brews the alcohol

He guards the brewery

He brings the alcohol to town

He is the lookout when Christmas sells the alcohol
12 How much is the reward for capturing Joanna's killer?
One thousand dollars

Five hundred dollars

One hundred dollars

There is no reward
13 Why is Byron alone when Lena Grove comes to the mill?
He stayed late to finish a task

Everyone else has gone to watch the fire

Everyone else has gone to town for their lunch break

He is the only one who works on Saturday afternoons
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 supports a charity for delinquent girls

He helps a poor black woman through childbirth
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 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?
Her name is found on a torn up piece of paper in the room

The man she was staying with tells the police

Someone from Jefferson recognized her in the hotel

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

He is afraid she'll run away

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?
Being left completely alone

Having to revert to menial labor

Losing his church

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

His whole life

Seven years

Two years
23 Who offers the reward for capturing Joanna's killer?
Byron Burch

Her nephew

The sheriff's department

The mayor of Jefferson
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 is waiting to see if she is going to tell the matron

It is concidence

He wants to get his punishment over with
25 On what does Nathaniel Burden blame the death of his son and father?
The racism of the South, and Jefferson especially

His father and son's openness with their views

Colonel Sartoris

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

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