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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 does Rosa Coldfield's sister ask of Rosa before the sister dies?
(a) To protect her children.
(b) To raise the Sutpen children.
(c) To bury her on the farm.
(d) To marry Thomas Sutpen.

2. What type of currency does Sutpen use to purchase his land?
(a) US dollars.
(b) French francs.
(c) Spanish gold coins.
(d) Italian lira.

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

4. To whom does Sutpen become engaged shortly after he is arrested?
(a) Rosa Coldfield.
(b) Ellen Coldfield.
(c) One of his slaves.
(d) Mr. Akers' daughter.

5. Whose regiment does Thomas Sutpen join?
(a) Colonel Sartoris's.
(b) General Compson's.
(c) General Lee's.
(d) Colonel Akers's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is Jefferson located?

2. Who lends Sutpen cotton seeds for his plantation?

3. Why does Sutpen get arrested?

4. What is Mr. Coldfield's association with Sutpen before the marriage?

5. What does Jason Compson believe Henry found to be objectionable about Charles' past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jason Compson identify as Henry's objection to Bon marrying Judith?

2. When did Sutpen tell the story of his childhood to General Compson?

3. What reason did Sutpen give for not joining the Klan?

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. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. What does Chapter 2 imply about the reason why Mr. Coldfield was the one who ordered the wagons to pick up Sutpen's home furnishings?

10. Why didn't Sutpen like sugar?

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