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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Quentin and Shreve believe that Henry was wounded?
(a) Gettysberg.
(b) Sumpter.
(c) Shiloh.
(d) Jefferson.

2. What is the setting of Chapter 8?
(a) Quentin and Shreve's dorm room.
(b) Sutpen's Hundred, New Orleans, and Civil War battlefields.
(c) Rosa Coldfield's office.
(d) Sutpen's Hundred.

3. Where do Sutpen's slaves go when the war began?
(a) They go to New Orleans.
(b) They hide in the woods near Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) They go to Martinique.
(d) They leave Sutpen's Hundred to follow the Yankee army.

4. To whom does the recipient of the letter presented in Chapter 4 give the letter to decades ago?
(a) General Compson, Quentin's grandfather.
(b) Jason Compson.
(c) Rosa Coldfield.
(d) Mrs. Compson, Quentin's grandmother.

5. Which of the following is the name of one of Sutpen's non-slave employees?
(a) Wash Jones.
(b) Mr. Coldfield.
(c) Charles Akers.
(d) Charles Bon.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Sutpen purchase his land?

2. Where is the visitor who Henry brings home for Christmas from?

3. Why does Thomas Sutpen stop attending church?

4. Who kills Thomas Sutpen?

5. Where does Thomas Sutpen get the money to build his estate?

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