A Lesson before Dying Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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A Lesson before Dying Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Jefferson does not eat, what does Grant pick up and eat?
(a) The candy
(b) Vegetables
(c) Chicken
(d) Corn

2. Grant tells a student to leave the classroom. Why?
(a) Because he was mean to another student
(b) Because she made a smart remark
(c) Because she is unable to control her emotions
(d) Because he looks like Jefferson

3. What does Vivian suggest Grant do to pass the time?
(a) Be with her
(b) Go to church
(c) Run away
(d) Exercise

4. What does Rougon's family own in a neighboring town?
(a) A tailormaking shop
(b) A dry cleaner
(c) A bank
(d) A supermarket

5. Why was Vivian shunned in this town?
(a) She had a job
(b) She was a bad teacher
(c) She married a dark skinned man
(d) She had a child out of wedlock

6. Who is told that they are 'smart. Maybe you're just a little too smart for our own good'?
(a) Grant
(b) Jefferson
(c) Pichot
(d) Ambrose

7. Grant is worried that the guards will do what when he goes to the jail on his own?
(a) Lock him up
(b) Ask him to strip or to look in his mouth
(c) Beat him
(d) Ignore him

8. What is NOT a way that Grant feels he has been humiliated?
(a) Be allowing himself to be searched at the jail
(b) By allowing the parcels to be searched
(c) By being forced to see Pichot
(d) By having to stay at the house

9. Who does Grant remember as someone who took great pride in his heritage?
(a) An out of towner
(b) A worker
(c) A famous person
(d) An Irishman

10. What is written on the blackboards?
(a) I love you/Je t'taime
(b) Vivian Wiggins
(c) Mrs. Vivian Wiggins
(d) Nothing, they've been cleaned

11. What does Miss Emma want Grant to help Jefferson know before he is executed?
(a) That he is a man.
(b) That he was right.
(c) That he worked hard during his life.
(d) That he is a good father.

12. How had Grant been taught to avoid this kind of humiliation?
(a) He hadn't been taught that.
(b) Through money
(c) Through education
(d) Through persistence

13. Which day of the week is a sad day?
(a) Friday
(b) Monday
(c) Sunday
(d) Wednesday

14. What do Vivian and Grant do after coffee and cake?
(a) Hold hands on the porch
(b) Go to the school
(c) Go for a walk
(d) Head to church

15. What does this person give to Grant?
(a) Money
(b) An anthology
(c) A soda
(d) A handkerchief

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Vivian's husband?

2. Who is upset with Jefferson's fate and pours herself a drink?

3. What was Jefferson doing when Miss Emma went to visit him?

4. Where is Jefferson's cell located?

5. Why does Grant whack the student on the head with a ruler?

(see the answer keys)

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