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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the names of Sutpen's two daughters?
2. What is the name of the woman who tells Quentin the story of Thomas Sutpen?
3. What does Charles Bon study at school?
4. What is Bon's rank in the army?
5. To whom is Judith engaged?
Short Essay Questions
1. Shreve and Quentin believe that one aspect of the idea of Charles marrying Judith is more repulsive to Henry than another. What is it?
2. How is Judith portrayed in Chapter 1?
3. 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?"
4. When did Sutpen tell the story of his childhood to General Compson?
5. Why is Rosa Coldfield telling her story to Quentin Compson?
6. What reasons does Jason Compson give for Rosa hating her father?
7. Several times throughout Chapter 4, Jason Compson mentions that Henry put Bon on "probation" for four years. What was the point of this probation?
8. When Thomas Sutpen tells the story of his childhood to General Compson, he mentions that he lost his innocence when he went to the door of the planter's house and was told he must use the back door. What was the innocence in regard to?
9. Repeatedly throughout Chapter 3, Ellen is referred to as "a butterfly." Why is she characterized this way, and what does it mean?
10. How does Rosa depict Judith's reaction to Charles Bon's murder?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How can the fall of the Sutpen family be compared to the fall of the South? What is the relationship between the two declines?
Essay Topic 2
Who is the protagonist of _Absalom, Absalom_? Who is the antagonist? Give reasons from the text to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the relationship between Henry and Bon to the relationship between Quentin and Shreve.
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