Light in August | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What does Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?

Her shoes

2. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?

She is looking for the father of her child.

3. What is Lena's hometown?

Doane's Mill, Alabama

4. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?

Her older brother

5. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

Because it will soon be a ghost town.

6. Who is Lena's brother?

McKinley

7. How much older than Lena is McKinley?

20 years

8. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?

She gets pregnant.

9. Who does McKinley think is the father of Lena's baby?

Lucas Burch

10. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?

So she can find Lucas

11. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

Armstid and his wife,...
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