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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Thomas Sutpen born?
(a) In the territory that is to become Mississippi.
(b) In the territory that is to become Louisiana.
(c) In the territory that is to become North Carolina.
(d) In the territory that is to become West Virginia.

2. How does Thomas Sutpen's last (youngest) child die?
(a) Wash Jones kills her.
(b) Henry Sutpen kills her.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She dies of yellow fever.

3. Who says a prayer at Charles Bon's funeral?
(a) Henry.
(b) Clytie.
(c) Theophilus McCaslin.
(d) Thomas Sutpen.

4. Who do Quentin and Shreve believe persuaded Bon to attend the university he chose to attend?
(a) Bon's wife.
(b) Bon's mother.
(c) The lawyer.
(d) Thomas Sutpen.

5. Why does Sutpen leave his first wife?
(a) He discovers she is an adulteress.
(b) He discovers she has a child by another man.
(c) He discovers she is of mixed race.
(d) He hates her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Judith Sutpen die?

2. Who is the narrator of Chapter 5?

3. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Charles Bon was waiting for when he anticipated the mail that would come to the university from Sutpen's Hundred?

4. Where is Shreve from?

5. Who kills Thomas Sutpen?

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