Intruder in the Dust Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Intruder in the Dust Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 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. Who stops Lucas from from getting lynched?
(a) The shopkeepers son
(b) Miss Laney
(c) The bar owner
(d) The blacksmith

2. What does Charles do when they hear the mule?
(a) Greets the mule and its rider cordially
(b) Shoots at the mule blindly
(c) Asks who it is
(d) Drives off the road

3. What is the name of Lucas's wife?
(a) Jane
(b) Baby Suggs
(c) Molly
(d) Andrea

4. What does Charles ask Aleck Sander to do?
(a) Find some spades
(b) Talk to Gavin
(c) Get the car keys from his father
(d) Saddle up his horse

5. Where did Lucas have his gun when they found him standing over the dead man?
(a) On the floor by his feet
(b) In his pocket
(c) In the waistband of his pants
(d) In his hand

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles do during breakfast?

2. What does Charles realize when Lucas notices him?

3. Where does Lucas take Charles?

4. What does the rider have on the horse with him?

5. What does Charles say Will is reading?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the ride to the cemetery.

2. How does chapter five express Charles's need to come of age as a man?

3. Why do the town think Lucas is guilty of the murder?

4. In this chapter how does Faulkner show what he thinks is the main difference between men and women?

5. Why are the black prisoners so quiet the night Lucas is taken into the prison?

6. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

7. Describe how even in prison the white man is given precedent over the black man.

8. Why is Sheriff Hampton so reluctant to react to Charles story about the mule?

9. Describe Lucas's appearance.

10. Why do you think Charles does not argue with Lucas when he pulls him from the water, even though he wants to?

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