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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Rosa when Ellen dies?
(a) Forty.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty-five.

2. Who notifies Rosa Coldfield of Charles' death?
(a) Wash Jones.
(b) Judith Sutpen
(c) Mrs. Compson.
(d) Henry Sutpen.

3. Upon hearing that Judith is engaged, what does Rosa offer to teach Judith?
(a) How to keep a ledger.
(b) How to read.
(c) How to keep house and manage other domestic matters.
(d) How to make a wedding dress.

4. What is Thomas Sutpen's rank in the army?
(a) Private.
(b) General.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Lieutenant.

5. What do Henry and Charles Bon do during the war?
(a) Live at Sutpen's Hundred.
(b) Finish their degrees.
(c) Start a trading company.
(d) Join the military company that forms at their university.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sutpen choose the bride he does?

2. What does Jason Compson believe Henry found to be objectionable about Charles' past?

3. Who posts bond so Sutpen can be released from jail?

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

5. Who helps Thomas Sutpen when he comes to Jefferson in 1833?

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