Light In August Study Guide

1. Why is Armstid with Winterbottom when Lena passes?

• Armstid wants to buy a cultivator from Winterbottom
• Armstid wants to buy a team of mules from Winterbottom
• It is a social visit
• Armstid wants to get Winterbottom's advice on a wagon he is going to purchase

2. Where does Hightower's wife die?

• Jefferson
• Nashville
• Memphis
• Montgomery

3. How do the men realize that Christmas has quit?

• The sawdust pile gets backed up
• The foreman tells them
• Byron tells everyone that he was arrested for Joanna Bundren's murder
• They notice that Brown is abnormally quiet

4. What is Lena especially excited to buy with Martha Armstid's money?

• Shoeblack
• Cornbread
• Shoes
• Sardines

5. What does Christmas do after learning about menstruation?

• He attacks a prostitute
• He kills a sheep
• He sells his cow
• He vomits

6. What state does Lena start her journey in?

• Tennessee
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Mississippi

7. How does McEachern know that Christmas sold his heifer?

• He finds a new suit that Christmas bought
• The neighbor that bought the cow tells him
• Mrs. McEachern tells him
• He always knows when Christmas is lying

8. What do the men in the mill remark about Brown?

• He always curses
• He wears especially nice clothes to work
• He is the only one who is rowdy and unclean on Mondays
• He is much quieter than usual on Mondays

9. Why does Joe Christmas go into the dietitian's room?

• To smell her clothes
• To hide from the janitor
• To steal some of her candy
• To eat some of her toothpaste

10. What services does Hightower offer after he must leave the church?

• Personal bible study lessons
• Child birthing for the poor
• Voice lessons
• Art lessons and photograph developing