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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Thomas Sutpen tells Henry at their last meeting?
(a) That Henry cannot allow Bon to marry Judith.
(b) That Henry must keep Bon's identity a secret.
(c) That Henry must kill Charles Bon.
(d) That Henry should move out of the country.

9. When Thomas Sutpen goes to the front door of the plantation house when he is a boy, what happens?
(a) The lady of the house takes him in and gave him a tour.
(b) The house servants laugh at Sutpen's clothes.
(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 master of the house shows Sutpen his gun.

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

11. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Henry did after his final meeting with his father?
(a) Killed Bon immediately.
(b) Killed himself.
(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.

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

13. Where is Thomas Sutpen born?
(a) In the territory that is to become North Carolina.
(b) In the territory that is to become Louisiana.
(c) In the territory that is to become Mississippi.
(d) In the territory that is to become West Virginia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sutpen leave his first wife?

2. Who cries at Bon's funeral?

3. Who is discussing the Sutpen story in Chapter 6?

4. What type of injury does General Compson incur in the war?

5. How old is Thomas Sutpen when he returns from the war?

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