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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Quentin and Shreve believe that Henry was wounded?
(a) Shiloh.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Sumpter.
(d) Gettysberg.

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

3. What has Bon replaced the picture Judith had given him with?
(a) A picture of his wife and child.
(b) A picture of Thomas.
(c) A picture of himself in his uniform.
(d) A picture of Henry.

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

5. Who is the primary narrator of Chapter 8?
(a) Henry.
(b) Shreve.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Quentin.

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

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

8. Who is the first person Rosa encounters when she enters Sutpen's house after the murder?
(a) Henry.
(b) Judith.
(c) Clytie.
(d) Charles Bon.

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

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

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

12. How does Wash Jones' granddaughter die?
(a) She dies of yellow fever.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) Jones kills her.
(d) Sutpen kills her.

13. Where is Thomas Sutpen the second time Bon visits Sutpen's estate?
(a) In Jefferson.
(b) In New Orleans.
(c) In Haiti.
(d) In Springfield.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Penelope?

4. What is the name of the woman who Sutpen impregnates after Rosa leaves Sutpen's estate?

5. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Charles Bon was waiting for when he anticipated the mail that would come to the university from Sutpen's Hundred?

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