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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Judith do with the money she receives from selling Sutpen's store?
(a) Purchases a tombstone for her father.
(b) Moves to New Orleans.
(c) Moves into downtown Jefferson.
(d) Purchases a tombstone for Charles Bon.

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

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

7. Who is Sutpen's first wife?
(a) Rosa Coldfield.
(b) Ellen Coldfield.
(c) The daughter of a French planter who lives in Haiti.
(d) A slave woman.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. Who makes Bon's coffin?
(a) Wash Jones.
(b) Judith Sutpen.
(c) Henry Sutpen.
(d) Thomas Sutpen.

14. Who kills Thomas Sutpen?
(a) Henry Sutpen.
(b) Rosa Coldfield.
(c) Judith Sutpen.
(d) Wash Jones.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who cries at Bon's funeral?

4. Where is Shreve from?

5. How do Shreve and Quentin believe that the French planter disguised his daughter's African blood?

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