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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?
2. What is Lena's hometown?
3. Christmas is out late with his friends despite the fact that he knows that McEachern will punish him when he gets home. How will Christmas be punished?
4. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
5. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Two men give Lena a ride in their wagon but one of them is especially concerned about what people might say. What misgivings do the men have about the situation?
2. Why does Christmas know that something is going to happen to him on this night?
3. Why does Christmas lose control when he sees Bobbie with another man?
4. What are the details of the murder as told by Byron in this chapter?
5. How does the dietician attempt to thwart disaster in the toothpaste incident?
6. Why is Byron so skittish as he leads Lena through town to get her settled in a boardinghouse?
7. Why does Christmas take Mrs. McEachern's hidden money as she watches him do it?
8. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the North as it is in the South?
9. How do the other men at the planing mill learn more about Christmas' background?
10. How does trouble find Byron anyway?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Faulkner opens the novel with the story of Lena and her undeterred faith that she will find the father of her unborn child. What does Lena symbolize in the novel? Why does Faulkner use her character to establish the story?
Essay Topic 2
Faulkner uses the literary technique of flashback in this novel. Note the flashback instances and describe them briefly. What is the purpose of using this technique? What do they provide the reader? What would the reader not know about this story if the flashbacks were not included?
Essay Topic 3
The town of Jefferson seems to be filled with misfits. This is not uncommon in the Southern Gothic style of literature which Faulkner writes. Why do you think there are so many unusual or eccentric characters? Could the story be told with more average characters or is it necessary to populate the town with eccentrics? Explain in context with other Southern Gothic literature with which you may be familiar.
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