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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Sutpen's occupation between the time he leaves his family and the time he arrives in Jefferson?
(a) He is an architect.
(b) He is the overseer of a plantation.
(c) He is a woodworker.
(d) He is a planter.

3. How does Rosa acquire what she needs to make Judith's wedding gift?
(a) She receives it from Ellen.
(b) She receives it by mail-order.
(c) She steals it from her father's store.
(d) She purchases it from her father's store.

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 writing out instructions on how to cook.
(d) She is making undergarments for Judith's trousseau.

5. Where is Shreve from?
(a) Alberta, Canada.
(b) Jefferson, Mississippi.
(c) Springfield, Illinois.
(d) Cambridge, Massachussetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Judith Sutpen die?

2. What is Quentin's closing thought of the novel?

3. What is the relationship between Rosa Coldfield and Judith Sutpen?

4. Where does Henry Sutpen attend college?

5. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Henry did after his final meeting with his father?

(see the answer key)

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