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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 is Rosa Coldfield's father's occupation?
(a) He is a preacher.
(b) He is a tailor.
(c) He is a farmer.
(d) He is a merchant.

2. What does Mr. Coldfield do with his store when the war breaks out?
(a) Turns it into a church.
(b) Locks it up.
(c) Sells it.
(d) Burns it.

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

4. How does Rosa acquire what she needs to make Judith's wedding gift?
(a) She receives it from Ellen.
(b) She purchases it from her father's store.
(c) She steals it from her father's store.
(d) She receives it by mail-order.

5. Why does Rosa move to Sutpen's estate?
(a) Sutpen invites her.
(b) She needs someone to take care of her.
(c) She loses her house.
(d) To fulfill her sister's dying wish of protecting her children by going to live with Judith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Quentin listening to the story about Sutpen?

2. Who does Thomas Sutpen marry?

3. To whom is Judith engaged?

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

5. In what state is Jefferson located?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Sutpen chooses Ellen Coldfield to be his bride over all the other women in Jefferson.

2. Why did Wash Jones kill Sutpen?

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

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

5. 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"?

6. Why did Sutpen want to have a big wedding, even though he knew it wasn't a good idea?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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