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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 posts bond so Sutpen can be released from jail?
(a) One of Sutpen's slaves.
(b) The Methodist minister.
(c) Mr. Coldfield and General Compson.
(d) Mr. Akers

2. What causes Henry and Charles Bon to abruptly leave Sutpen's estate one Christmas day?
(a) Ellen hasa fight with Thomas.
(b) Charles Bon has a fight with Sutpen.
(c) Judith calls off the marriage.
(d) Henry has a fight with his father.

3. After what major event does Rosa Coldfield move to Sutpen's estate?
(a) After the death of her father.
(b) After the birth of Judith Sutpen.
(c) After the death of her mother.
(d) After the death of her sister.

4. In Chapter 4, the reason why Henry rejects his family and his birthright is revealed. What is that reason?
(a) Judith wanted to marry Bon.
(b) Henry discovered that Sutpen had other children.
(c) Henry discovered that Sutpen had stolen the money he used to build Sutpen's Hundred.
(d) Thomas Sutpen forbade the marriage between Bon and Judith.

5. Whose regiment does Thomas Sutpen join?
(a) General Compson's.
(b) General Lee's.
(c) Colonel Sartoris's.
(d) Colonel Akers's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ellen Sutpen at the time of Rosa's story?

2. What does Mr. Coldfield do with his store when the war breaks out?

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

4. Why is Quentin listening to the story about Sutpen?

5. Where is Sutpen's architect from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chapter 2 imply about the reason why Mr. Coldfield was the one who ordered the wagons to pick up Sutpen's home furnishings?

2. Why did Henry choose to reject his family and his birthright when his father forbade the marriage between Bon and Judith?

3. When did Sutpen tell General Compson about why he abandoned his first wife?

4. Why is it ironic that the only Sutpen descendant left at the end of the novel is Jim Bond?

5. When Clytie is trying to get Quentin to bring Rosa back downstairs when Rosa has come to Sutpen's Hundred in 1909, Clytie tells Quentin, "Whatever he done, me and Judith and him have paid it out." What does she mean that they have "paid it out?"

6. Characterize Thomas Sutpen as he is portrayed by Rosa Coldfield's description in Chapter 1.

7. Why didn't Sutpen like sugar?

8. At the end of Chapter 5, Rosa says there is "something in that house," referring to Sutpen's Hundred. Quentin responds, "In that house? It's Clytie..." What can the reader infer from this exchange?

9. In the final imagined scene of Chapter 8, Shreve and Quentin imagine what took place after Sutpen departed from the military camp, having just told Quentin about the true origin of Charles Bon. Henry tells Bon what Sutpen has told him. What does Charles tell Henry to do?

10. Why did Sutpen reject his first wife?

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