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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thomas Sutpen like to do in his barn for entertainment?
(a) Read books.
(b) Whittle.
(c) Make saddles.
(d) Fight with his slaves.

2. Where does Thomas Sutpen get the money to build his estate?
(a) No one knows.
(b) He is a horse trader.
(c) A family inheritance.
(d) He had been a banker.

3. What photograph does Charles Bon have on his person when he dies?
(a) A photograph of Judith.
(b) A photograph of himself in his military uniform.
(c) A photograph of Henry.
(d) A photograph of his wife and child.

4. Which of the following is the name of one of Sutpen's non-slave employees?
(a) Charles Akers.
(b) Mr. Coldfield.
(c) Charles Bon.
(d) Wash Jones.

5. How is Charles Bon killed?
(a) He is drowned.
(b) He is hung.
(c) He is poisoned.
(d) He is shot.

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

7. Who builds Sutpen's house?
(a) A group of soldiers.
(b) Jefferson laborers.
(c) Sutpen and his slaves.
(d) The local construction company.

8. Where do Sutpen's slaves go when the war began?
(a) They go to New Orleans.
(b) They hide in the woods near Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) They leave Sutpen's Hundred to follow the Yankee army.
(d) They go to Martinique.

9. Where is Charles Bon buried?
(a) In the Sutpen family plot.
(b) On the battlefield.
(c) Next to his wife.
(d) In New Orleans.

10. Which three characters have speaking roles in Chapter 1?
(a) Thompas Sutpen, Quentin Compson, and Ellen Coldfield.
(b) Rosa Coldfield, Quentin Compson, and Mr. Compson.
(c) Ellen Sutpen, Rosa Coldfield, and Quentin Compson.
(d) Quentin Compson, Mr. Compson, and Ellen Coldfield.

11. Who lends Sutpen cotton seeds for his plantation?
(a) Mr. Coldfield.
(b) Mr. Akers.
(c) Jefferson's hospitality committee.
(d) General Compson.

12. Why is Quentin Compson going to leave Jefferson in the fall?
(a) To attend Harvard.
(b) To get married.
(c) To enlist in the Civil War.
(d) To move to New Orleans.

13. What is the letter that is presented in Chapter 4 written with?
(a) Blood.
(b) Ink.
(c) Stove polish.
(d) Lead.

14. Who does Thomas Sutpen marry?
(a) Ellen Compson.
(b) Judith Sutpen.
(c) Rosa Coldfield.
(d) Ellen Coldfield.

15. Who is Rosa engaged to at one point in her life?
(a) Mr. Compson.
(b) Quentin Compson.
(c) Henry Sutpen.
(d) Thomas Sutpen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Supten live for the first few months of his residence in Jefferson?

2. After what major event does Rosa Coldfield move to Sutpen's estate?

3. In what state is Jefferson located?

4. Why does Rosa move to Sutpen's estate?

5. To whom is Judith engaged?

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