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

Light in August Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does Christmas do when he asks the waitress out and she wants to return home because she has her monthly period?
(a) He ignores her.
(b) He never talks to her again.
(c) He tells her that they can make a date for another night.
(d) He hits her, runs away to the woods and vomits.

3. Why does Mr. McEachern then go to church?
(a) To ask God to rid him of the burden of Christmas.
(b) To ask God for help in raising Christmas
(c) To set up the hymnals for the next day's services
(d) To expiate his sins

4. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she is incoherent
(b) That her head has been almost severed from her body
(c) That she is still alive
(d) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition

5. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 7

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?

2. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?

3. What does Christmas announce to everyone present?

4. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?

5. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lena rationalize the fact that Lucas has not yet sent for her?

2. Why is Bobbie attracted to Christmas?

3. The author uses the literary technique of a flashback at this point in the book. What purpose does this serve?

4. Why does Christmas sleep in the stables that night?

5. Who does the dietician turn to in her plans to ruin Christmas?

6. What is Christmas' final act of naivete regarding Bobbie?

7. What are Byron Bunch's first impressions of Joe Christmas?

8. What is the irony of McEachern beating Christmas for not memorizing his catechism lesson?

9. Why are the people of Jefferson not sure that Reverend Hightower is interested in them?

10. Why does Byron Bunch spend so much time at his job at the planing mill?

(see the answer keys)

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