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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Quentin and Shreve believe managed Sutpen's first wife's money?
(a) Charles Bon.
(b) General Compson.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) Sutpen.

2. Why does Sutpen leave his first wife?
(a) He discovers she has a child by another man.
(b) He hates her father.
(c) He discovers she is an adulteress.
(d) He discovers she is of mixed race.

3. How old is Charles Bon when he goes away to college?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty-eight.

4. 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 slave butler tells Sutpen he is not allowed to use the front door and must go to the back of the house.
(c) The lady of the house takes him in and gave him a tour.
(d) The master of the house shows Sutpen his gun.

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

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

7. What is the setting of Chapter 6?
(a) The Sutpen mansion.
(b) Quentin's dorm room at Harvard.
(c) The Compsons' porch.
(d) Rosa Coldfield's office.

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

9. What is the name of Thomas Sutpen's first child?
(a) Judith Sutpen.
(b) Charles Bon.
(c) Clytie.
(d) Henry Sutpen.

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

11. Chapter 7 says that Sutpen had only one friend. Who is that friend?
(a) Wash Jones.
(b) The French architect.
(c) The French planter.
(d) General Compson.

12. Where is Sutpen's funeral?
(a) At Jefferson's Catholic church.
(b) In the woods near Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) At Sutpen's Hundred.
(d) At Jefferson's Methodist church.

13. What type of injury does General Compson incur in the war?
(a) He is shot in the foot.
(b) He is knifed in the shoulder.
(c) An arm wound that leads to the amputation of his right arm.
(d) He breaks his leg.

14. Who is telling the Sutpen story in Chapter 7?
(a) Rosa and Shreve.
(b) Quentin and Shreve.
(c) Quentin and Jason.
(d) Quentin and Rosa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Thomas Sutpen tells Henry at their last meeting?

2. When Quentin goes to Sutpen's Hundred with Rosa, who tries to stop them from going up the stairs?

3. Where does Rosa live after leaving Sutpen's estate?

4. Who conducts Sutpen's funeral service?

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

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