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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What woman does Sutpen turn his attentions to after Rosa leaves Sutpen's estate?
(a) Wash Jones' granddaughter.
(b) One of his neighbor's servants.
(c) Ellen Coldfield.
(d) His neighbor's daughter.

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

5. What reason does Rosa give for staying at Sutpen's estate after Bon's death?
(a) She needs shelter.
(b) She needs food.
(c) She wants to marry Sutpen when he returnes.
(d) She is waiting for Sutpen to return.

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

7. Who says a prayer at Charles Bon's funeral?
(a) Thomas Sutpen.
(b) Theophilus McCaslin.
(c) Clytie.
(d) Henry.

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

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

10. Where does Rosa live after leaving Sutpen's estate?
(a) In New Orleans.
(b) Her father's house.
(c) In her father's store.
(d) The Compsons' house.

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

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

13. How do Shreve and Quentin believe that the French planter disguised his daughter's African blood?
(a) The planter has the neighbors lie about his daughter's mother.
(b) The planter destroys his daughter's birth certificate.
(c) The planter tells Sutpen that his daughter's mother is Native American.
(d) The French planter tells Sutpen that his daughter's mother is Spanish.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Thomas Sutpen go when he leaves his family as a boy?

2. What has Bon replaced the picture Judith had given him with?

3. How does Charles Bon's son die?

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

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

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