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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 does Thomas Sutpen do during the war?
2. What does General Compson do on the day of Sutpen's wedding?
3. What are the names of Sutpen's two daughters?
4. Where does Rosa meet Charles Bon?
5. Who is Rosa engaged to at one point in her life?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Judith's fiance die?
2. 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?"
3. Why does Rosa take such an intense interest in Judith's wedding?
4. What is Quentin's answer to Shreve's final question of the novel?
5. Why did Henry choose to reject his family and his birthright when his father forbade the marriage between Bon and Judith?
6. Why did Ellen ask Rosa to protect Judith but not Henry?
7. Repeatedly throughout Chapter 3, Ellen is referred to as "a butterfly." Why is she characterized this way, and what does it mean?
8. What is Shreve's final question to Quentin?
9. Characterize Thomas Sutpen as he is portrayed by Rosa Coldfield's description in Chapter 1.
10. In Chapter 3, how does the breakout of the war affect the main characters of the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The novel closes with Quentin insisting that he does not hate the South. Does he? Why or why not? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss why Clytie chose to stay at Sutpen's Hundred her entire life, and why she remained loyalty to her family until the end. Be sure to use specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
When Sutpen's final child is born, he refers to her as a "mare." How can this comparison between horses and women apply to the way all of the women in the novel are treated and viewed?
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