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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 what year does Stupen's marriage take place?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1838.
(d) 1833.
2. What does Mr. Coldfield do during the war?
(a) Locks himself in his attic.
(b) Moves to New Orleans.
(c) Fights for the South.
(d) Startes a store in Jefferson.
3. Where does Rosa meet Charles Bon?
(a) At Sutpen's Hundred.
(b) In New Orleans.
(c) On the streets of Jefferson.
(d) She never meets him.
4. Who helps Thomas Sutpen when he comes to Jefferson in 1833?
(a) Ellen Coldfield.
(b) Quentin's father.
(c) Quentin's grandfather.
(d) The town preacher.
5. Which three characters have speaking roles in Chapter 1?
(a) Ellen Sutpen, Rosa Coldfield, and Quentin Compson.
(b) Rosa Coldfield, Quentin Compson, and Mr. Compson.
(c) Quentin Compson, Mr. Compson, and Ellen Coldfield.
(d) Thompas Sutpen, Quentin Compson, and Ellen Coldfield.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Quentin while he's listening to the story about Thomas Sutpen?
2. Who lends Sutpen cotton seeds for his plantation?
3. What is Mr. Coldfiled's association with Sutpen after the marriage?
4. In Chapter 3, who is the primary narrator of the Thomas Sutpen story?
5. What does Judith Sutpen witness as a child that her mother did not want her to see?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 3, how does the breakout of the war affect the main characters of the story?
2. What is the reader to imfer from the last paragraph of Chapter 1, which says that there were "two Sutpen faces," one Judith's and one a slave girl's, looking down at Sutpen fighting his slaves?
3. 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?"
4. What does Chapter 6 imply about the reason why Judith took Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon in after he was orphaned?
5. Repeatedly throughout Chapter 3, Ellen is referred to as "a butterfly." Why is she characterized this way, and what does it mean?
6. Why did Henry choose to reject his family and his birthright when his father forbade the marriage between Bon and Judith?
7. When did Sutpen tell General Compson about why he abandoned his first wife?
8. 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?
9. How is Judith portrayed in Chapter 1?
10. What does Jason Compson identify as Henry's objection to Bon marrying Judith?
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