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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Rosa preparing as a wedding gift for Judith?
(a) She is making Judith's wedding dress.
(b) She is knitting Judith a sweater.
(c) She is making undergarments for Judith's trousseau.
(d) She is writing out instructions on how to cook.

5. How does Charles Bon's son die?
(a) He is killed in a bar fight.
(b) He dies of old age.
(c) He is killed by Thomas Sutpen.
(d) He dies of yellow fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Quentin Compson going to leave Jefferson in the fall?

2. What is Charles Bon's religion?

3. How far is Henry and Charles' university from Sutpen's estate?

4. Who does Rosa marry?

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

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