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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What organization is Sutpen asked to join, but which he declines to be a part of?
(a) The Mississippi Senate.
(b) The Ku Klux Klan.
(c) The Confederate Army.
(d) Jefferson's City Council.

3. Who is the narrator of Chapter 5?
(a) Jason Compson.
(b) Thomas Sutpen.
(c) Quentin Compson.
(d) Rosa Coldfield.

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

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

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

7. At the end of Chapter 5, who is imagining the scene that occurred when Henry told Judith of the murder?
(a) Rosa.
(b) Jason.
(c) Clytie.
(d) Quentin.

8. 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 lady of the house takes him in and gave him a tour.
(d) The slave butler tells Sutpen he is not allowed to use the front door and must go to the back of the house.

9. What is the name of Quentin's roommate?
(a) Charles.
(b) Jason.
(c) Henry.
(d) Shreve.

10. 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.

11. Who is the letter in Chapter 6 from?
(a) Judith Sutpen.
(b) Jason Compson.
(c) Rosa Coldfield.
(d) Charles Bon.

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

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

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

15. Who is the primary subject of discussion in Chapter 8?
(a) Thomas Sutpen.
(b) Charles Bon.
(c) Judith Sutpen.
(d) Quentin Compson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wash Jones' granddaughter die?

2. What happens to Charles Bon's son after his mother dies?

3. What is the setting of Chapter 6?

4. Who cries at Bon's funeral?

5. Where does Jim Bond live?

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