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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Quentin and Jason visit the Sutpen graveyard, who is buried there?
(a) Charles Bon and Ellen Sutpen.
(b) Ellen, Thomas, and Judith Sutpen; Charles Bon; and Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon.
(c) Ellen and Thomas Sutpen and Charles Bon.
(d) Ellen, Thomas, and Judith Sutpen.

2. In what state is Jefferson located?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. What is the name of the woman who tells Quentin the story of Thomas Sutpen?
(a) Rosa Coldfield.
(b) Judith Sutpen.
(c) Ellen Sutpen.
(d) Ellen Coldfield.

4. Why does Rosa move to Sutpen's estate?
(a) She needs someone to take care of her.
(b) She loses her house.
(c) Sutpen invites her.
(d) To fulfill her sister's dying wish of protecting her children by going to live with Judith.

5. Why does Shreve believe Charles changed the pictures?
(a) So that when he died, Judith would be able to contact his wife and child.
(b) Because Charles intended to mail the picture to his wife and child after marrying Judith.
(c) So that in case he died, Judith would find the picture and think that he had not been worth marrying.
(d) Because Charles never loved Judith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Quentin and Shreve believe managed Sutpen's first wife's money?

2. What is Charles Bon's religion?

3. In Chapter 4, the reason why Henry rejects his family and his birthright is revealed. What is that reason?

4. Where had Thomas Sutpen lived before he came to Jefferson?

5. Where does Jim Bond live?

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