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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the close of Chapter 5, Rosa says there is something hidden somewhere. Where is it hidden?
(a) In the swamp.
(b) In Sutpen's house.
(c) In the Compson house.
(d) In her father's store.

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

3. Who do Quentin and Shreve believe persuaded Bon to attend the university he chose to attend?
(a) Bon's mother.
(b) The lawyer.
(c) Bon's wife.
(d) Thomas Sutpen.

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

5. When Quentin and Jason visit the Sutpen graveyard, who is buried there?
(a) Charles Bon and Ellen Sutpen.
(b) Ellen and Thomas Sutpen and Charles Bon.
(c) Ellen, Thomas, and Judith Sutpen.
(d) Ellen, Thomas, and Judith Sutpen; Charles Bon; and Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon.

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

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

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

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

10. How far is Henry and Charles' university from Sutpen's estate?
(a) Forty miles.
(b) A day's train ride.
(c) Eight miles.
(d) Four hundred miles.

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

12. Who is Jim Bond?
(a) Clytie's son.
(b) Judith's son.
(c) Judith's servant.
(d) Charles Bon's grandson.

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

14. How does Thomas Sutpen's last (youngest) child die?
(a) She dies of yellow fever.
(b) Henry Sutpen kills her.
(c) She drowns.
(d) Wash Jones kills her.

15. Why does Sutpen reject his last (youngest) child?
(a) The child is diseased.
(b) The child is a girl instead of a boy.
(c) The child is born out of wedlock.
(d) The child is of mixed race.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 7 says that Sutpen had only one friend. Who is that friend?

2. Who conducts Sutpen's funeral service?

3. What woman does Sutpen turn his attentions to after Rosa leaves Sutpen's estate?

4. Who makes Bon's coffin?

5. What is Judith holding in her hand the first time Rosa sees her after the murder?

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