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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. Why is Quentin Compson going to leave Jefferson in the fall?
(a) To get married.
(b) To attend Harvard.
(c) To move to New Orleans.
(d) To enlist in the Civil War.

2. What is Mr. Coldfield's association with Sutpen before the marriage?
(a) Mr. Coldfield is Sutpen's banker.
(b) Mr. Coldfield is the one who ordered the wagons that picked up Sutpen's home furnishings.
(c) Mr. Coldfield is one of the men who came to Sutpen's hunting parties.
(d) Mr. Coldfield is the minister of Sutpen's church.

3. Which three characters have speaking roles in Chapter 1?
(a) Thompas Sutpen, Quentin Compson, and Ellen Coldfield.
(b) Quentin Compson, Mr. Compson, and Ellen Coldfield.
(c) Ellen Sutpen, Rosa Coldfield, and Quentin Compson.
(d) Rosa Coldfield, Quentin Compson, and Mr. Compson.

4. What happens to Rosa Coldfield's aunt when Rosa was ten?
(a) The aunt moves out to Sutpen's Hundred.
(b) The aunt elopes.
(c) The aunt dies.
(d) The aunt is arrested and jailed.

5. Upon hearing that Judith is engaged, what does Rosa offer to teach Judith?
(a) How to make a wedding dress.
(b) How to keep a ledger.
(c) How to keep house and manage other domestic matters.
(d) How to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Charles Bon killed?

2. What are the names of Sutpen's two daughters?

3. What do Henry and Charles Bon do during the war?

4. What is the setting of Chapter 4?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Jason Compson give for Rosa hating her father?

2. How is Judith portrayed in Chapter 1?

3. Why didn't Bon view his first marriage as a barrier to marrying Judith?

4. How did Charles Bon actually find out about his father?

5. Why were all the charges against Sutpen dropped after his bond was signed by Mr. Coldfield and General Compson?

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. When General Compson rescues Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon from an indictment, he gives Bon money and tells him to leave town. He tells him that "once you are among strangers, people who don't know you, you can be whatever you will." What does he mean when he says that Bon "can be whatever" he wants?

8. Why did Sutpen reject his first wife?

9. Why did Clytie set the fire at Sutpen's Hundred?

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

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