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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Charles Bon's son die?
(a) He dies of yellow fever.
(b) He is killed by Thomas Sutpen.
(c) He dies of old age.
(d) He is killed in a bar fight.

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

5. What happens to Charles Bon's son after his mother dies?
(a) He inherits her money and becomes a landowner.
(b) He is sent to boarding school.
(c) He becomes a servant in New Orleans.
(d) He comes to live at Sutpen's Hundred.

6. Where do Quentin and Shreve believe Henry and Thomas Sutpen last saw each other?
(a) On the battlefield.
(b) At Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) In a military camp.
(d) In New Orleans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Where does Rosa live after leaving Sutpen's estate?
(a) Her father's house.
(b) In her father's store.
(c) The Compsons' house.
(d) In New Orleans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jim Bond?

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

3. Why does Shreve believe Charles changed the pictures?

4. Who rescues Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon from being indicted?

5. What is the setting of Chapter 8?

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