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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. After Sutpen's house is built but still unfurnished, what does Sutpen invite Jeffersonians out to Sutpen's Hundred to do?
(a) Hunt, drink, play cards, and watch slaves fight for entertainment.
(b) Help him decorate the house.
(c) Watch dog fighting.
(d) Fish.

2. In what year does the novel begin?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1900.

3. Who writes the letter that is presented in Chapter 4?
(a) Rosa Coldfield.
(b) Charles Bon.
(c) Henry Sutpen.
(d) Judith Sutpen.

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

5. Where is Sutpen's architect from?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Martinique.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the visitor who Henry brings home for Christmas from?

3. In what state is Jefferson located?

4. What is the relationship between Ellen Sutpen and Rosa Coldfield?

5. What is the letter that is presented in Chapter 4 written with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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." Who is she referring to when she says "he?" Who is she referring to when she says "him?"

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

4. Why is it significant that it rains on Sutpen's wedding night?

5. 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?

6. Why was Rosa offended that Wash Jones came to the front of the house when he arrived to notify her of Charles Bon's death?

7. Why is Rosa Coldfield telling her story to Quentin Compson?

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

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

10. In Chapter 4, Jason Compson says that "...it must have been Henry who seduced Judith, not Bon..." What does this mean?

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