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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 sale of Sutpen's hundred.
(d) The death of Charles Bon.

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

3. What is the name of the woman who Sutpen impregnates after Rosa leaves Sutpen's estate?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Milly.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Eleanor.

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

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

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

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

8. Where does Jim Bond live?
(a) In a shack behind the Sutpen estate.
(b) In the swamp adjacent to Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) In Jefferson.
(d) In New Orleans.

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

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. How old is Rosa at the time of Bon's death?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Fourteen.

14. What is Sutpen's occupation between the time he leaves his family and the time he arrives in Jefferson?
(a) He is a planter.
(b) He is an architect.
(c) He is a woodworker.
(d) He is the overseer of a plantation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who kills Thomas Sutpen?

3. What is the name of Charles and Henry's company during the war?

4. What happens to Charles Bon's son after his mother dies?

5. What is the name of Thomas Sutpen's first child?

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