Light in August Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Light in August Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?
(a) A deed
(b) Money
(c) Letters
(d) A diary

2. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Volunteering at the hospital
(b) Driving a cab
(c) Working the night shift
(d) Selling whiskey illegally

3. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because it is none of her business
(b) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden
(c) Because she is an abolitionist
(d) Because she approves of the whiskey sales

4. What does Christmas do when he realizes that the waitress sleeps with other men for money?
(a) He says he wants her to stop.
(b) He hits her and breaks down sobbing.
(c) He never talks to her again.
(d) He says that it does not bother him.

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

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

7. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
(a) He picks some berries for a treat.
(b) He writes in his diary.
(c) He eats breakfast and reads his magazine cover-to-cover.
(d) He takes another nap.

8. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?
(a) That he told her that there is no one in town that fits the description of Lucas Burch.
(b) That he told her that she should go back home.
(c) That he told Lena that Joe Brown is the Lucas Burch she seeks.
(d) That he told her that she is just looking for trouble by looking for Lucas Burch.

9. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(b) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.
(c) She has no interest in fundraising drives.
(d) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.

10. What does Mame tuck into Christmas' pocket?
(a) A map
(b) A bank note
(c) A knife
(d) A gun

11. Who is Bobbie?
(a) Bobbie is a waitress Christmas meets at a rundown restaurant.
(b) Bobbie is Mrs. McEachern's sister.
(c) Bobbie is the name Christmas gives his new heifer.
(d) Bobbie is the choir leader at church.

12. What does Christmas do with the answer to #77?
(a) He makes her set it outside the door.
(b) He accepts the gesture from Mrs. McEachern.
(c) He throws it on the floor.
(d) He refuses the offering.

13. What does Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?
(a) Her boots
(b) Her gloves
(c) Her shoes
(d) Her raincoat

14. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?
(a) rum
(b) whiskey
(c) vodka
(d) gin

15. What do the men do to Christmas?
(a) They let him leave without incident.
(b) They promise not to inform on him.
(c) They give him a head start.
(d) They beat him senseless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lena's brother?

2. What happens as Christmas comes to in Bobbie's room?

3. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?

4. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?

5. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.

(see the answer keys)

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