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

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

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

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

5. Where does Henry Sutpen attend college?
(a) University of South Carolina.
(b) University of Mississippi.
(c) University of New Orleans.
(d) State University at Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Thomas Sutpen arrive in Jefferson?

2. Why is Quentin Compson going to leave Jefferson in the fall?

3. To whom does the recipient of the letter presented in Chapter 4 give the letter to decades ago?

4. In what state is Jefferson located?

5. In what year does the novel begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Wash Jones kill Sutpen?

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

5. What is Quentin distracted by at the end of Chapter 5 that causes him to stop paying attention to the story?

6. Several times throughout Chapter 4, Jason Compson mentions that Henry put Bon on "probation" for four years. What was the point of this probation?

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

8. In Chapter 8, the reader receives a glimpse of the action that unfolded the night that Rosa and Quentin went to Sutpen's Hundred. How are these events similar to another situation that occurred at Sutpen's Hundred?

9. How is Judith portrayed in Chapter 1?

10. Why didn't Rosa defy her father and attempt to reinstate the store so she could survive financially?

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