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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who kills Thomas Sutpen?
(a) Judith Sutpen.
(b) Wash Jones.
(c) Henry Sutpen.
(d) Rosa Coldfield.

2. What is Shreve's nickname for Thomas Sutpen?
(a) The fighter.
(b) The idiot.
(c) The demon.
(d) The devil.

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

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

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

6. What is Charles Bon's religion?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Adventist.

7. How does Judith Sutpen die?
(a) She commits suicide.
(b) She is killed by Charles Bon's wife.
(c) She dies of old age.
(d) She dies of yellow fever.

8. What happens to Charles Bon's son after his mother dies?
(a) He becomes a servant in New Orleans.
(b) He inherits her money and becomes a landowner.
(c) He is sent to boarding school.
(d) He comes to live at Sutpen's Hundred.

9. Who is the primary narrator of Chapter 8?
(a) Shreve.
(b) Henry.
(c) Quentin.
(d) Rosa.

10. What is the name of Charles and Henry's company during the war?
(a) The Mississippi Company.
(b) The Oxford Company.
(c) The Jefferson Regiment.
(d) The University Grays.

11. Who is Sutpen's first wife?
(a) The daughter of a French planter who lives in Haiti.
(b) Rosa Coldfield.
(c) A slave woman.
(d) Ellen Coldfield.

12. What organization is Sutpen asked to join, but which he declines to be a part of?
(a) Jefferson's City Council.
(b) The Mississippi Senate.
(c) The Ku Klux Klan.
(d) The Confederate Army.

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

14. When Thomas Sutpen goes to the front door of the plantation house when he is a boy, what happens?
(a) The house servants laugh at Sutpen's clothes.
(b) The master of the house shows Sutpen his gun.
(c) The slave butler tells Sutpen he is not allowed to use the front door and must go to the back of the house.
(d) The lady of the house takes him in and gave him a tour.

15. How old is Thomas Sutpen when he returns from the war?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) Thirty-nine.
(c) Forty-five.
(d) Fiifty-nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Chapter 6?

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

3. When Quentin and Jason visit the Sutpen graveyard, who is buried there?

4. Who do Quentin and Shreve believe persuaded Bon to attend the university he chose to attend?

5. How does Charles Bon's son die?

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