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Light in August
William Faulkner
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What does Christmas remain throughout the novel?
An everyman
Inscrutable
The moral center
A free spirit
2
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What does Christmas lack above all?
Money
Aloofness
Impulse to cruelty
An identity
3
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Lena can be seen as a simple embodiment of ___.
The novel's antagonist
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The novel's life force
The novel's religiosity
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Through the figure of Hightower, ___ becomes a living entity that is never escaped or left behind.
The past
Emotions
Science
God
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Byron's life is designed around the avoidance of ___.
Work
Entanglement
Omens
The South
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