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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. Why does Sutpen get arrested?
(a) He cheats Ikkemotubbe out of his land.
(b) The town believes he stole his home furnishings.
(c) He kills a man.
(d) He does not pay his taxes.

2. Who builds Sutpen's house?
(a) The local construction company.
(b) Jefferson laborers.
(c) A group of soldiers.
(d) Sutpen and his slaves.

3. In what year does Stupen's marriage take place?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1838.

4. What is the name of the woman who tells Quentin the story of Thomas Sutpen?
(a) Judith Sutpen.
(b) Ellen Sutpen.
(c) Ellen Coldfield.
(d) Rosa Coldfield.

5. Where had Thomas Sutpen lived before he came to Jefferson?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Missouri.
(c) No one in Jefferson knows.
(d) South Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stupen's bride cry on her wedding day?

2. What does General Compson do on the day of Sutpen's wedding?

3. What does Judith Sutpen witness as a child that her mother did not want her to see?

4. What does Henry study at school?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sutpen reject his first wife?

2. What reasons does Jason Compson give for Rosa hating her father?

3. What is Quentin's answer to Shreve's final question of the novel?

4. What is the significance of describing Judith and Henry as having a relationship as close as "that fierce impersonal rivalry between two cadets in a crack regiment"?

5. In Chapter 8, what is meant by the fact that Quentin and Shreve feel as though there are four people in their dorm room?

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

7. Why did Sutpen want to marry Rosa?

8. Why is Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon such a violent and troubled young man?

9. Why did Thomas Sutpen marry Ellen Coldfield?

10. Chapter 6 reveals the way in which Thomas Sutpen insulted Rosa, an insult that led to Rosa calling off their engagement. How did Sutpen insult her?

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