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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. Where is the visitor who Henry brings home for Christmas from?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Greenfield.
(c) Oxford.
(d) New Orleans.

2. What do Henry and Charles Bon do during the war?
(a) Finish their degrees.
(b) Live at Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) Join the military company that forms at their university.
(d) Start a trading company.

3. Why does Sutpen get arrested?
(a) He does not pay his taxes.
(b) He cheats Ikkemotubbe out of his land.
(c) He kills a man.
(d) The town believes he stole his home furnishings.

4. What does Judith Sutpen witness as a child that her mother did not want her to see?
(a) A Civil War battle.
(b) A horse being killed.
(c) A hanging.
(d) Her father fighting with his slaves.

5. What is Bon's rank in the army?
(a) General.
(b) Colonel.
(c) Private.
(d) Lieutenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Stupen's marriage take place?

2. What happens to Rosa Coldfield's aunt when Rosa was ten?

3. In what year does Thomas Sutpen arrive in Jefferson?

4. Who is Rosa engaged to at one point in her life?

5. Who first discovers the truth about Charles Bon's past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Quentin's answer to Shreve's final question of the novel?

2. Several times throughout Chapter 4, Jason Compson mentions that Henry put Bon on "probation" for four years. What was the point of this probation?

3. Chapter 6 reveals the way in which Thomas Sutpen insulted Rosa, an insult that led to Rosa calling off their engagement. How did Sutpen insult her?

4. Why is Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon such a violent and troubled young man?

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

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

7. In Chapter 3, how does the breakout of the war affect the main characters of the story?

8. 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." What does she mean that they have "paid it out?"

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

10. What does Rosa mean when she says that Sutpen "wasn't a gentleman"?

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