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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 27: "Darl" means tending to induce sleep?
(a) Collorary.
(b) Soporific.
(c) Elucitive.
(d) Anthromorphic.

2. Who begins to fall behind when carrying the casket in Chapter 23: "Darl"?
(a) Anse.
(b) Jewel.
(c) Cash.
(d) Samson.

3. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 8: "Tull"? "His eyes look like pieces of burnt-out cinder fixed in his face, looking out over the land" (11).
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. Tull describes Anse as looking like what dressed up in Chapter 31: “Tull"?
(a) A scarecrow.
(b) An uncurried horse.
(c) An old man.
(d) A weathered goat.

5. Anse claims in Chapter 28: "Anse" that there is nowhere in this world that an honest, hardworking man can do what?
(a) Get a job.
(b) Profit.
(c) Lose money.
(d) Find a wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Peabody say it's been since Anse was in town in Chapter 11: "Peabody"?

2. How many miles does Cora say the Bundrens are carting Addie to bury her in Chapter 6: "Cora"?

3. What word from Chapter 12: "Darl" means to wail in grief?

4. Who fetches the rope to assist Peabody in climbing the bluff in Chapter 11: "Peabody"?

5. Who goes to the Bundren's wagon to tell them about the bridge in Chapter 29: “Samson”?

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