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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 lends Sutpen cotton seeds for his plantation?
(a) Jefferson's hospitality committee.
(b) General Compson.
(c) Mr. Coldfield.
(d) Mr. Akers.

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

3. What do Henry and Charles Bon do during the war?
(a) Live at Sutpen's Hundred.
(b) Join the military company that forms at their university.
(c) Finish their degrees.
(d) Start a trading company.

4. What is the relationship between Quentin Compson and Rosa Coldfield?
(a) They are neighbors.
(b) She is his step-sister.
(c) She is his teacher.
(d) She is his aunt.

5. What are the names of Sutpen's two daughters?
(a) Judith and Ellen.
(b) Judith and Rosa.
(c) Judith and Cassandra.
(d) Judith and Clytie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Stupen's marriage take place?

2. How is Charles Bon killed?

3. Which of the following is the name of one of Sutpen's non-slave employees?

4. Where does Rosa meet Charles Bon?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chapter 6 imply about the reason why Judith took Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon in after he was orphaned?

3. The story of Sutpen's youth as a poor white on a plantation describes considerable hostility from poor whites directed at black slaves. What was the cause of this hostility?

4. 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?

5. Why did Sutpen want to marry Rosa?

6. Characterize the change in public opinion about Sutpen that occurs in the first few years of his residence in Jefferson, and explain why that change occurs.

7. How is Judith portrayed in Chapter 1?

8. Why does Jason Compson, who is telling much of the story presented in Chapter 2, know so much about Sutpen?

9. Why do the townspeople show up at the wedding to throw dirt and vegetables? Is it something more than the fact that they don't like Sutpen?

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

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