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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. What is the relationship between Rosa Coldfield and Judith Sutpen?
(a) Judith is Rosa's cousin.
(b) Judith is Rosa's niece.
(c) Judith is Rosa's best friend.
(d) Judith is Rosa's step-sister.

2. What does Jason Compson believe Henry found to be objectionable about Charles' past?
(a) The fact that Charles had written letters to Judith.
(b) The fact that Charles was not of a known family.
(c) The fact that Charles married his mistress.
(d) The fact that Charles lived in New Orleans.

3. Where do Sutpen's slaves go when the war began?
(a) They go to New Orleans.
(b) They hide in the woods near Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) They go to Martinique.
(d) They leave Sutpen's Hundred to follow the Yankee army.

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

5. From whom does Sutpen purchase his land?
(a) Mr. Coldfield.
(b) General Compson.
(c) The Jefferson bank.
(d) Ikkemotubbe, a Native American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Stupen and his bride emerge from the church after their wedding service?

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

3. Where does Thomas Sutpen get the money to build his estate?

4. After what major event does Rosa Coldfield move to Sutpen's estate?

5. What does Rosa Coldfield's sister ask of Rosa before the sister dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Thomas Sutpen tells the story of his childhood to General Compson, he mentions that he lost his innocence when he went to the door of the planter's house and was told he must use the back door. What was the innocence in regard to?

2. Why did Sutpen want to marry Rosa?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. What was Rosa Coldfield's childhood relationship with Thomas Sutpen and his family?

9. What is Shreve's final question to Quentin?

10. Why does Judith give the letter from Charles Bon away?

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