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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Henry bring home from college for Christmas one year?
(a) His English professor.
(b) Charles Akers.
(c) Charles Bon.
(d) Quentin Compson.

2. What is Rosa Coldfield's father's occupation?
(a) He is a merchant.
(b) He is a farmer.
(c) He is a tailor.
(d) He is a preacher.

3. What does Mr. Coldfield do with his store when the war breaks out?
(a) Turns it into a church.
(b) Sells it.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Locks it up.

4. Where does Supten live for the first few months of his residence in Jefferson?
(a) Mr. Coldfield's store.
(b) Holston House, the town inn.
(c) Sutpen's Hundred.
(d) In a tent on the outskirts of town.

5. How old is Rosa when Ellen dies?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Forty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seventeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Sutpen's house is built but still unfurnished, what does Sutpen invite Jeffersonians out to Sutpen's Hundred to do?

2. In Chapter 3, who is the primary narrator of the Thomas Sutpen story?

3. What happens to Rosa Coldfield's aunt when Rosa was ten?

4. Where had Thomas Sutpen lived before he came to Jefferson?

5. What is Henry's rank in the army?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Charles Bon actually find out about his father?

2. What does Rosa mean when she says that Sutpen "wasn't a gentleman"?

3. In Chapter 3, how does the breakout of the war affect the main characters of the story?

4. Why didn't Bon view his first marriage as a barrier to marrying Judith?

5. When did Sutpen tell the story of his childhood to General Compson?

6. Shreve and Quentin believe that one aspect of the idea of Charles marrying Judith is more repulsive to Henry than another. What is it?

7. What is the reader to imfer from the last paragraph of Chapter 1, which says that there were "two Sutpen faces," one Judith's and one a slave girl's, looking down at Sutpen fighting his slaves?

8. Why did Sutpen reject his first wife?

9. How does Rosa depict Judith's reaction to Charles Bon's murder?

10. Why are there several different versions of how Charles Bon came to find out about his father in Chapter 8?

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