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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 is Sam Father's real birth name?

2. How many pilots make up the stunt team in the story "Death Drag"?

3. Which of the following relatives does Elly live with in the story "Elly"?

4. What devastating fact does Pappy find out about the black woman he is in love with?

5. What vegetable is Abner Snope ordered to use to pay back his debts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does the desirable woman in "A Courtship" decide to marry, and how does she make her decision?

2. Why does Res Grier offer a hound dog to two of his co-workers?

3. How does Lucius Provine treat the black people in his neighborhood when he is a child?

4. How does the father in "The Tall Men" cope with the surgery he must undergo before his sons are taken away from him?

5. What happens when young Georgie goes to visit his Uncle Rodney in the story "That Will Be Fine"?

6. Why is Abner Snope ordered to pay de Spain bushels of corn, and what is Abner's reaction to this order?

7. Why are the two Indians in "Red Leaves" searching for their chief's slave?

8. How does Sam Fathers earn his birth name?

9. In the story "A Justice," why does Doom leave his tribe and where does he go?

10. Why is Res Grier accused of arson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Red Leaves" is the first story in the collection to deal with the issue of slavery from the Native American point of view. First, explain how the Native Americans in this story treat their slaves. Then, compare/contrast this treatment to the way the white men in Faulkner's collection treat their slaves. Why is "Red Leaves" an important story within this collection?

Essay Topic 2

The story of Doom becoming Indian chief of his tribe is one full of adultery, murder, dishonesty and racism. Give at least one examples of each of these elements within the story "A Justice." Then explain why you think Faulkner chose to give this story its particular title.

Essay Topic 3

How is the theme of decay represented in the story "A Rose for Emily"? Choose two people or objects in this short story and compare/contrast the physical decay these objects undergo throughout the course of the story. Then explain how this decay represents to the theme of love in Emily Grierson's life.

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