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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 moves into the cabin with Christmas?
(a) Lena Grove
(b) Lukas Burch
(c) Hightower
(d) Byron Brown
2. How does the fading afternoon light seem to Hightower?
(a) sentimental
(b) audible
(c) sad
(d) rosy
3. How does the relationship between Christmas and Miss Burden evolve?
(a) They become best friends.
(b) He becomes the manager of her farm.
(c) The friendship cools off after a year.
(d) They become lovers.
4. What does Christmas do on the side without telling Miss Burden?
(a) Takes art classes
(b) Sees other women
(c) Sells whiskey
(d) Sells drugs
5. Christmas finds that Miss Burden's behavior is like that of a what?
(a) virgin
(b) whore
(c) preacher's wife
(d) nymphomaniac
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Byron bring to Hightower's house?
2. Why does Lena move into the cabin?
3. What happens to Hightower after the delivery of the baby?
4. What does Christmas come to understand about women?
5. The baby's first cry also has a strong emotional release for Byron. Why?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Christmas refuse to marry Miss Burden and raise a family?
2. How does Mrs. Hines indirectly cause the death of Christmas, her grandson?
3. How does Faulkner show that women are more realistic and more forgiving in this chapter?
4. What does Hightower finally realize as he sits at his window watching the fading light?
5. New life has significance in more than one way in this chapter. Explain.
6. How does Christmas know that he has run far enough for now?
7. What does Hightower mean when he says the fading afternoon light is audible?
8. The cries of Lena's newborn child are significant for Byron. Why?
9. Explain this statement made by Christmas: "Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words."
10. Why does Percy Grimm castrate Christmas while he is still alive?
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