A Lesson Before Dying Multiple Choice
A Lesson Before Dying Multiple Choice
A Lesson Before Dying Multiple Choice
Assignment 1
Chapters 1-10
1. Who says that all in the courtroom know what the outcome of the trial will be?
a) Tante Lou
b) The unnamed narrator
c) Bourgon
d) Miss Emma
2. Who is the young African American man at the center of the trial?
a) Bear
b) Grope
c) Brother
d) Jefferson
3. Which of the following men did not get into the car to go to the bar?
a) Brother
b) Grant
c) Bear
d) Jefferson
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7. Where does Grant drive Miss Emma and Tante Lou?
a) To their home
b) To Bourgon's home
c) To Guidry's home
d) To Henri Pichot's home
12. What does Miss Emma want Grant to help Jefferson know before he is executed?
a) That he is a good father.
b) That he is a man.
c) That he was right.
d) That he worked hard during his life.
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13. Who is the fellow teacher with whom Grant is having an affair?
a) Emeline
b) Inez
c) Irene
d) Vivian
14. Where do the person in #13 and Grant meet up once she had arranged for a babysitter?
a) White Rabbit Bar and Lounge
b) The local market
c) Rainbow Club
d) Bill's Diner
16. What does Grant not want to spend his life doing?
a) Being oppressed
b) Teaching children on a plantation
c) Living in this town
d) Being bored
23. Why does Grant whack the student on the head with a ruler?
a) Because the student was asleep
b) Because the student was playing with a bug
c) Because the student is crying
d) Because the student sassed him
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c) 40 minutes early
d) 5 minutes early
26. Who is upset with Jefferson's fate and pours herself a drink?
a) Inez
b) Edna Guidry
c) Irene
d) Vivian
29. Who is told that they are 'smart. Maybe you're just a little too smart for our own good'?
a) Ambrose
b) Jefferson
c) Grant
d) Pichot
30. How long until this person in #28 can visit Jefferson?
a) The next day
b) A month
c) A couple of weeks
d) A week
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32. Who warns Grant of the impending annual visit by the superintendent?
a) Miss Emma
b) Pichot
c) Guidry
d) Ambrose
33. What is something Grant does NOT tell his students to do when the superintendent
arrives?
a) To sing a song
b) To bathe each morning
c) To behave
d) To show up in nice clothes
36. What does the superintendent lecture the children on the importance of?
a) Hard work
b) Books
c) Nutrition
d) Education
38. Who does Grant see joking that makes him question his role as a teacher?
a) Children
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b) His own students
c) Women
d) Deliverymen
45. What is searched before Miss Emma and Grant go to Jefferson's cell?
a) Their shoes
b) Miss Emma's purse
c) Their clothing
d) Her parcels
46. What does Grant give the prisoners as he moves toward Jefferson's cell?
a) Books
b) Change
c) Nothing
d) Food
47. What does Miss Emma promise the other prisoners as they leave?
a) Change
b) Books
c) Any extra food they have
d) Nothing
50. What is NOT a way that Grant feels he has been humiliated?
a) By being forced to see Pichot
b) By having to stay at the house
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c) Be allowing himself to be searched at the jail
d) By allowing the parcels to be searched
51. How had Grant been taught to avoid this kind of humiliation?
a) Through education
b) Through money
c) Through persistence
d) He hadn't been taught that.
52. How did Grant's teacher say he would be broken down as?
a) A fool
b) A dog
c) A nigger
d) A hog
54. Grant is worried that the guards will do what when he goes to the jail on his own?
a) Beat him
b) Ignore him
c) Lock him up
d) Ask him to strip or to look in his mouth
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A Lesson Before Dying
Assignment 2
Chapters 11-19
1. Who reminds Grant that the visits will end at the first sign of trouble?
a) Rougon
b) Edna Guidry
c) Sam Guidry
d) Pichot
5. When Jefferson does not eat, what does Grant pick up and eat?
a) Vegetables
b) Chicken
c) Corn
d) The candy
6. What is Grant going to tell Miss Emma that Jefferson ate and enjoyed?
a) The pralines
b) The corn
c) The chicken
d) The bread
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 12
8. Who does Grant remember as someone who took great pride in his heritage?
a) An out of towner
b) A famous person
c) A worker
d) An Irishman
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 13
13. Who does Grant hear calling his Tante Lou from the road?
a) Reverend Ambrose
b) Inez
c) Pichot
d) Eloise Bouie
15. Who does NOT press Grant for details about his visit with Jefferson?
a) Miss Emma
b) Vivian
c) Tante Lou
d) Reverend Ambrose
16. What does Reverend Ambrose ask about the discussions between Jefferson and Grant?
a) Whether they are long
b) Whether they have discussed God
c) Whether they were civil
d) Whether they are hateful
17. The reverend asks Grant if it would be appropriate to take a ________ when his visits
Jefferson. Grant agrees.
a) Blanket
b) Book
c) Radio
d) Bible
24. Vivian insists that they __________, as it would not be fair to Tante Lou to not do this.
a) Wash the dishes
b) Invite everyone to dinner
c) Leave a note
d) Walk the dog
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26. When is Grant going to visit Jefferson again?
a) That day
b) The next Tuesday
c) Never
d) On Friday
31. What does Grant tell the women of the house about Vivian?
a) That she's going to leave her husband
b) That he doesn't really like her
c) That he wants to marry her
d) That she's selfish
33. What was Jefferson doing when Miss Emma went to visit him?
a) Sleeping
b) Trying to escape
c) Reading
d) Staring at the wall
34. What did Miss Emma do when Jefferson said he is a hog being fattened for the
slaughter?
a) Slap him
b) Nothing
c) Yell for the guard
d) Hit him with a book
35. Miss Emma asks Tante Lou why _____ hates her.
a) God
b) Pichot
c) Grant
d) Jefferson
36. The Reverend Ambrose tells Miss Emma that God is just ____________.
a) Being quiet
b) Not interested in saving Jefferson
c) Vengeful
d) Testing her
37. What did Jefferson do when Miss Emma arrived in his cell?
a) Slapped her
b) Laughed at her
c) Ignored her
d) Yelled at her
42. Grant is quick to point out to Jefferson that no one knows when they will ________.
a) Find God
b) Be released
c) Die
d) Be found innocent
45. Who does Jefferson talk to to tell that he will meet Tante Lou, Miss Emma, and Reverend
Ambrose in the day room?
a) Grant
b) Rougon
c) Pichot
d) Guidry
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46. When is Jefferson brought into the day room wearing?
a) A hat
b) No shirt
c) Chains
d) A smile
47. The women prepare a smaller table with __________ and ________.
a) Alcohol, glasses
b) Bibles, a radio
c) place settings, food
d) a table cloth, china
48. When Jefferson wants to talk about his execution, what does Grant talk about?
a) Miss Emma
b) The weather
c) His school's Christmas program
d) The execution
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 19
54. Who does Grant invite to speak at the beginning and at the end of the Christmas
program?
a) Reverend Ambrose
b) Guidry
c) Miss Emma
d) Pichot
56. What is the present the sits beneath the tree in the classroom?
a) An envelope of money
b) A bible
c) A pillow
d) A wool sweater and socks
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A Lesson Before Dying
Assignment 3
Chapters 20-28
2. When Grant is called away to Pichot's house, which student does he leave in charge?
a) Johnathan
b) Bill
c) Andrea
d) Irene
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 21
7. Whose car is parked outside of Miss Emma's house when Grant arrives?
a) Guidry's
b) Miss Emma's
c) Tante Lou's
d) Reverend Ambrose's
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 22
14. Who is Jefferson's first visitor since the announcement of the execution date?
a) Miss Emma
b) Grant
c) Reverend Ambrose
d) Pichot
15. What does Jefferson want now because he doesn't think he had enough when he was
growing up?
a) Fruit
b) Steak
c) Ice cream
d) Milk
17. From whom does Grant get the money for the item in #124?
a) Bourgon
b) Guidry
c) Vivian
d) Thelma and Joe Claiborne
18. Who does Grant annoy when he insists on a brand new radio?
a) Miss Emma
b) Vivian
c) A white clerk
d) Thelma
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 23
19. Jefferson refuses to go to the day room at first because he can't bring what with him?
a) A friend
b) His journal
c) The newspaper
d) The radio
21. What do Tante Lou, Miss Emma and Reverend Ambrose call the radio?
a) A sin box
b) A necessity
c) A plesant treat
d) A piece of junk
23. What does Grant NOT bring with him to Jefferson the next day?
a) Apples
b) Candy
c) Pecans and pralines
d) A new radio
24. What else does Grant bring to Jefferson for his cell?
a) A picture
b) A notebook
c) A sculpture
d) A plant
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 24
25. Who is late in arriving to visit with Jefferson, but does not offer any explanation?
a) Miss Emma
b) Reverend Ambrose
c) Tante Lou
d) Grant
26. What do Miss Emma and Tante Lou serve for Jefferson in the day room?
a) Pasta
b) Cake
c) Gumbo
d) Bread
27. Grant tells Jefferson to be a ________ and more than a ________ to Miss Emma.
a) Friend, godson
b) strong person, coward
c) son, stranger
d) god fearing man, black man
28. Grant also encourages Jefferson to be a _______ to Miss Emma, the children of the
quarter, and to him.
a) Man
b) Mentor
c) Example
d) Hero
30. What does Grant say about whites who have called Jefferson a hog?
a) That they don't know any better
b) That they are always looking for scapegoats
c) That they are right
d) That they are idiots
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 25
33. Grant's involvement with Jefferson has greatly affected his ____________ with Vivian.
a) Sexual performance
b) Relationship
c) Attitude
d) Honesty
34. Who are so prejudiced against darker skinned African Americans that they drop out of
school to become bricklayers?
a) Africans
b) Mullatos
c) Whites
d) There is no one like this
35. When the bricklayers begin to criticize Jefferson and his effect on the African American
population, who tells them to shut up?
a) Pichot
b) Joe Claiborne
c) Grant
d) Vivian
36. Who is knocked unconscious during the fight with the bricklayers?
a) Grant
b) Thelma
c) Joe
d) Edna
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 26
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 27
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 28
49. What does Grant bring with him when he next sees Jefferson?
a) A bible
b) A piece of fruit
c) A new pencil
d) Sweet potatoes
51. Grant suggests that Jefferson speak to ________, and it would be good for Miss Emma to
know that he does.
a) Christ
b) Pichot
c) Guidry
d) Reverend Ambrose
53. Grant believes that Miss Emma is ill and so she wants Jefferson to meet her in
_____________.
a) Heaven
b) A dream
c) Her house
d) The courtroom
54. Who is the reason that people care for others, according to Grant?
a) God
b) Miss Emma
c) Bonin
d) Reverend Ambrose
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A Lesson Before Dying
Assignment 4
Chapters 29-31
1. What does Miss Emma tell Jefferson she wants for him?
a) Happiness
b) Peace
c) To pray for her
d) To ask for God's forgiveness
3. What does Jefferson question when he talks about the fact that he cares for Miss Emma?
a) Whether right and wrong are possible
b) Whether Miss Emma will go to heaven
c) Whether he will go to heaven
d) Whether chores can be an expression of love
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 30
7. What moves through the town, causing people to become anxious and nervous?
a) An unnatural fog
b) A heavy rain
c) A stranger in black
d) The truck carrying the electric chair
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Multiple Choice - Chapter 31
14. Grant knows that Jefferson is dead when the butterfly leaves ________________.
a) The jar
b) The window
c) The house
d) A patch of bull grass
15. Jefferson asks that Miss Emma be told that he __________ to his execution.
a) Skipped
b) Sobbed
c) Walked
d) Crawled
16. Bonin says that ___________ was a great teacher for Jefferson.
a) Miss Emma
b) Reverend Ambrose
c) Grant
d) Tante Lou
17. Grant suggests that Bonin tell his students about Jefferson's ________.
a) Courage
b) Smile
c) Execution
d) Sense of humor
18. Bonin is deeply sorry for what happened, and asks for Grant's ________.
a) Friendship
b) Marble
c) Notebook
d) Forgiveness
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Multiple Choice Answer Key
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