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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 does Hightower ask Lena to do when he returns to the cabin later that day?
2. Where does the stranger take Christmas?
3. Where does Christmas go when he escapes from jail and where he is eventually killed?
4. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
5. Why did Hightower's grandfather never visit his son's home?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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."
2. New life has significance in more than one way in this chapter. Explain.
3. Why do the Negroes of Mottstown support Mr. Hines who preaches white supremacy in Negro churches?
4. Explain the irony in Miss Burden's nearly nymphomaniac behavior?
5. Why is Hightower so upset that Byron has asked for his help with the situations regarding Lena and Christmas?
6. As Christmas runs to avoid the law, he stops at a cabin and trades shoes with a Negro woman. What is the significance of the traded shoes?
7. Why does Percy Grimm castrate Christmas while he is still alive?
8. How does Faulkner show that women are more realistic and more forgiving in this chapter?
9. What is the symbolism of the odor in Hightower's house?
10. Explain why Christmas' arrival in the town of Mottstown means that he has come full circle in his life.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Christmas has a few dreamlike episodes where he disassociates himself from his actions. Why do you think he does this? Are these situations really just dreams or are they really happening?
Essay Topic 2
Explain Faulkner's use of symbolism and imagery in the book as related to the topic of light. What does the light in August represent? Which characters are especially affected by this light and what does it mean to them?
Essay Topic 3
Another literary technique Faulkner uses is to give a voice to the towns of Jefferson and Mottstown. Why does Faulkner do this? How can one voice encompass the opinions and feelings of all the people in a town? What would the reader not know if these voices were not apparent in the story?
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