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

2. What is the setting of Chapter 4?
(a) At Sutpen's Hundred in 1865.
(b) In Rosa Coldfield's office.
(c) On the Compsons' porch.
(d) At Sutpen's Hundred in 1909.

3. In what year does Stupen's marriage take place?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1838.
(d) 1909.

4. Why does Stupen's bride cry on her wedding day?
(a) Most of Jefferson refuses to attend the wedding.
(b) Her father disapproves of the marriage.
(c) Her mother can not attend the wedding.
(d) She hates Sutpen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wants Stupen and his bride to have a big wedding?

2. What does General Compson do on the day of Sutpen's wedding?

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

4. What does Mr. Coldfield do during the war?

5. Why is Quentin Compson going to leave Jefferson in the fall?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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"?

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

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

6. Why didn't Sutpen like sugar?

7. Why do the townspeople show up at the wedding to throw dirt and vegetables? Is it something more than the fact that they don't like Sutpen?

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

9. What does Chapter 6 imply about the reason why Judith took Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon in after he was orphaned?

10. What is Shreve's final question to Quentin?

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