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

Armstid wants to buy a team of mules from Winterbottom

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

Memphis

Nashville

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

The sawdust pile gets backed up

They notice that Brown is abnormally quiet

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?
Sardines

Shoeblack

Cornbread

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

He attacks a prostitute

He kills a sheep

He vomits
6 What state does Lena start her journey in?
Mississippi

Tennessee

Arkansas

Alabama
7 How does McEachern know that Christmas sold his heifer?
The neighbor that bought the cow tells him

Mrs. McEachern 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 the only one who is rowdy and unclean on Mondays

He always curses

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 steal some of her candy

To hide from the janitor

To eat some of her toothpaste

To smell her clothes
10 What services does Hightower offer after he must leave the church?
Art lessons and photograph developing

Voice lessons

Personal bible study lessons

Child birthing for the poor
11 What is Brown's role in his partnership with Christmas?
He guards the brewery

He brings the alcohol to town

He brews the alcohol

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

There is no reward

One thousand dollars

Five hundred dollars
13 Why is Byron alone when Lena Grove comes to the mill?
He stayed late to finish a task

Everyone else has gone to town for their lunch break

He is the only one who works on Saturday afternoons

Everyone else has gone to watch the fire
14 What good deed does Hightower do that starts malicious rumors about him?
He adopts an orphan

He helps a poor black woman through childbirth

He supports a charity for delinquent girls

He hires an unemployed man to cook for him
15 From whom does Christmas first learn about menstruation?
The dietitian

Bunch

Hightower

A prostitute he beats
16 What specific factor makes Christmas feel compelled to kill Joanna?
That she wants to kick him off her property

That she lied about her pregnancy

That she has begun to pray over him

That she is obsessed with his racial makeup
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 wants to be ladylike

She feels guilty for taking Martha's money

She is disgusted by everything they offer

She has morning sickness
19 What does Brown accuse the police of?
Keeping him in jail so that they can capture Christmas and get the reward

Falsifying evidence to convict Christmas of the murder

Stupidity

Racism
20 Why won't Byron leave Lena alone in Mrs. Beard's?
He is afraid Burch will find her

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
21 What does Reverend Hightower consider most bitter about his tragedy?
Being left completely alone

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

Losing his church

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

Twenty-five years

Two years

Seven years
23 Who offers the reward for capturing Joanna's killer?
Her nephew

The mayor of Jefferson

Byron Burch

The sheriff's department
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

It is concidence

He is waiting to see if she is going to tell the matron
25 On what does Nathaniel Burden blame the death of his son and father?
Colonel Sartoris

The racism of the South, and Jefferson especially

His father and son's openness with their views

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

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