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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Quentin know about Thomas Sutpen's childhood?
(a) Sutpen's childhood is common knowledge in Jefferson.
(b) The Compsons possessed Thomas Sutpen's diary.
(c) Sutpen tells Quentin's grandfather, who tells Quentin's father, who tells Quentin.
(d) Rosa Coldfield tells Quentin about Sutpen's childhood.

4. Who is present when Rosa got engaged?
(a) Judith and Clytie.
(b) Judith.
(c) Clytie.
(d) Wash Jones.

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

6. What does Judith do when she tells Thomas Sutpen about what happened to Bon?
(a) She remains emotionless.
(b) She cries.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She smiles.

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

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

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

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

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

12. How does Charles Bon's son die?
(a) He dies of yellow fever.
(b) He is killed in a bar fight.
(c) He is killed by Thomas Sutpen.
(d) He dies of old age.

13. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Henry did after his final meeting with his father?
(a) Killed himself.
(b) Killed Bon immediately.
(c) Left the army and returned to Sutpen's Hundred to protect Judith.
(d) Told Charles Bon that Henry knew he was partially black and also his brother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the letter in Chapter 6 announce?

2. Why does Rosa leave Sutpen's estate in Chapter 5?

3. At the end of Chapter 5, who is imagining the scene that occurred when Henry told Judith of the murder?

4. Why does Sutpen leave his first wife?

5. How old is Charles Bon when he goes away to college?

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