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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Quentin know about Thomas Sutpen's childhood?
(a) Rosa Coldfield tells Quentin about Sutpen's childhood.
(b) Sutpen's childhood is common knowledge in Jefferson.
(c) The Compsons possessed Thomas Sutpen's diary.
(d) Sutpen tells Quentin's grandfather, who tells Quentin's father, who tells Quentin.

2. Where does Thomas Sutpen go when he leaves his family as a boy?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) The West Indies.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) New Orleans.

3. Who is the letter in Chapter 6 from?
(a) Charles Bon.
(b) Rosa Coldfield.
(c) Jason Compson.
(d) Judith Sutpen.

4. What does the letter in Chapter 6 announce?
(a) The sale of Sutpen's hundred.
(b) The death of Charles Bon.
(c) The death of Rosa Coldfield.
(d) The love of Charles Bon for Judith Sutpen.

5. How does Wash Jones' granddaughter die?
(a) Sutpen kills her.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) Jones kills her.
(d) She dies of yellow fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Charles Bon's son die?

2. What reason does Rosa give for staying at Sutpen's estate after Bon's death?

3. Who cries at Bon's funeral?

4. 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?

5. Why does Sutpen reject his last (youngest) child?

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