Absalom, Absalom! Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Absalom, Absalom! Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Absalom, Absalom! Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Quentin listening to the story about Sutpen?

2. What is the weather like the night of Sutpen's wedding?

3. How old is Rosa when Ellen dies?

4. Who does Rosa marry?

5. Who writes the letter that is presented in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it ironic that the only Sutpen descendant left at the end of the novel is Jim Bond?

2. How does Rosa depict Judith's reaction to Charles Bon's murder?

3. What is the reader to imfer from the last paragraph of Chapter 1, which says that there were "two Sutpen faces," one Judith's and one a slave girl's, looking down at Sutpen fighting his slaves?

4. What does Jason Compson identify as Henry's objection to Bon marrying Judith?

5. Repeatedly throughout Chapter 3, Ellen is referred to as "a butterfly." Why is she characterized this way, and what does it mean?

6. When did Sutpen tell the story of his childhood to General Compson?

7. How did Judith's fiance die?

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

9. Why did Sutpen reject his first wife?

10. Why did Thomas Sutpen marry Ellen Coldfield?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Thomas Sutpen could be interpreted as a sympathetic character. Who in the novel views Supten sympathetically? Be sure to use specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Examine how Quentin changes over the course of the novel and explain how and why. Be sure to use specific examples from the text.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 818 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Absalom, Absalom! Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
Absalom, Absalom! from BookRags. (c)2025 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.