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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Penelope?
(a) Sutpen's mare, who bears a colt the same day Sutpen's last child is born.
(b) Sutpen's sister.
(c) Sutpen's mother.
(d) Sutpen's daughter.

2. Where does Thomas Sutpen go when he leaves his family as a boy?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) The West Indies.
(d) South Carolina.

3. Who cries at Bon's funeral?
(a) Judith and Rosa.
(b) Judith.
(c) No one.
(d) Rosa.

4. Who rescues Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon from being indicted?
(a) Rosa.
(b) Judith.
(c) General Compson.
(d) Clytie.

5. Whose regiment does Thomas Sutpen join?
(a) General Compson's.
(b) General Lee's.
(c) Colonel Sartoris's.
(d) Colonel Akers's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does General Compson do on the day of Sutpen's wedding?

2. At the end of Chapter 5, who is imagining the scene that occurred when Henry told Judith of the murder?

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

4. What happens to Rosa the night she returns to Sutpen's estate for the last time?

5. When Thomas Sutpen goes to the front door of the plantation house when he is a boy, what happens?

(see the answer key)

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