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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Judith do when she tells Thomas Sutpen about what happened to Bon?
(a) She smiles.
(b) She cries.
(c) She remains emotionless.
(d) She laughs.

2. Where do Quentin and Shreve believe Henry and Thomas Sutpen last saw each other?
(a) In New Orleans.
(b) In a military camp.
(c) On the battlefield.
(d) At Sutpen's Hundred.

3. What does the letter in Chapter 6 announce?
(a) The death of Rosa Coldfield.
(b) The love of Charles Bon for Judith Sutpen.
(c) The death of Charles Bon.
(d) The sale of Sutpen's hundred.

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

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 never loved 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 intended to mail the picture to his wife and child after marrying Judith.

6. Who conducts Sutpen's funeral service?
(a) Judith.
(b) The Catholic priest.
(c) General Compson.
(d) The Methodist preacher.

7. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Thomas Sutpen tells Henry at their last meeting?
(a) That Henry should move out of the country.
(b) That Henry cannot allow Bon to marry Judith.
(c) That Henry must keep Bon's identity a secret.
(d) That Henry must kill Charles Bon.

8. Who is the primary subject of discussion in Chapter 8?
(a) Quentin Compson.
(b) Thomas Sutpen.
(c) Charles Bon.
(d) Judith Sutpen.

9. Who makes Bon's coffin?
(a) Henry Sutpen.
(b) Judith Sutpen.
(c) Thomas Sutpen.
(d) Wash Jones.

10. Who is the letter in Chapter 6 from?
(a) Rosa Coldfield.
(b) Judith Sutpen.
(c) Jason Compson.
(d) Charles Bon.

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

12. Who is the narrator of Chapter 5?
(a) Thomas Sutpen.
(b) Quentin Compson.
(c) Jason Compson.
(d) Rosa Coldfield.

13. When Quentin goes to Sutpen's Hundred with Rosa, who tries to stop them from going up the stairs?
(a) Jim Bond.
(b) Henry Sutpen.
(c) Wash Jones.
(d) Clytie.

14. 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 a woodworker.
(c) He is a planter.
(d) He is the overseer of a plantation.

15. How does Rosa survive after she leaves Sutpen's estate?
(a) She steals food and relies on donations from the neighbors.
(b) She hunts.
(c) She lives off the food supplies left in her father's store.
(d) She cultivates a garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Thomas Sutpen the second time Bon visits Sutpen's estate?

2. Who is telling the Sutpen story in Chapter 7?

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

4. What type of injury does General Compson incur in the war?

5. Why does Sutpen reject his last (youngest) child?

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