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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Sutpen visit when he returns to Jefferson to place a tombstone on Ellen's grave?
(a) Rosa Coldfield.
(b) General Compson.
(c) His first wife.
(d) Charles Bon.

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

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

5. How does Rosa survive after she leaves Sutpen's estate?
(a) She steals food and relies on donations from the neighbors.
(b) She cultivates a garden.
(c) She lives off the food supplies left in her father's store.
(d) She hunts.

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. Why does Sutpen leave his first wife?
(a) He discovers she is of mixed race.
(b) He hates her father.
(c) He discovers she is an adulteress.
(d) He discovers she has a child by another man.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wash Jones' granddaughter die?

2. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Henry did after his final meeting with his father?

3. Why does Sutpen reject his last (youngest) child?

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

5. What is the setting of Chapter 6?

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