Light in August Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Light in August Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?
(a) Because she is more intelligent than any of them
(b) Because she associates with Negroes
(c) Because she is too eccentric
(d) Because she never married

2. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?
(a) Two tramps scavenging for food
(b) Mrs. McEachern walking in the moonlight.
(c) The scarecrow in the vegetable garden
(d) The shadow of Christmas running by to get into an arriving car

3. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas
(a) That he is a nigger and will have to be sent to a nigger orphanage
(b) That he is too old to stay in this orphanage
(c) That he will never be adopted
(d) That he will be adopted soon

4. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan
(b) The Mafia
(c) A group of thugs
(d) The church elders

5. Why is Christmas attracted to the waitress?
(a) She has a great smile.
(b) She has a good sense of humor.
(c) She gives him extra marshmallows for his cocoa.
(d) She is small and all the men seem to like her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?

2. What does Miss Burden insist that Christmas do every day to prove his faithfulness?

3. What happens when Mr. McEachern calls Bobbie a harlot?

4. What does Christmas announce to everyone present?

5. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

(see the answer key)

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