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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has the sheriff hired to look after Lucas?
(a) Will Legate
(b) Frank Davis
(c) James Buff
(d) Gavin Stevens

2. Who does Charles wake up when he gets home?
(a) His father
(b) Lucas
(c) Uncle Gavin
(d) The sheriff

3. What does Charles do with the money when Lucas refuses it?
(a) Swallows it
(b) Pockets it
(c) Throws it on the floor
(d) Gives it to Aleck

4. Where does Gavin take Charles?
(a) To the saloon
(b) To the sheriff's house
(c) To school
(d) To the cemetery

5. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?
(a) A coca-cola
(b) A pork pie
(c) Tobacco
(d) A guitar

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lucas have his gun when they found him standing over the dead man?

2. Why must they hide the truck when they reach the cemetery?

3. What is the Sheriff's surname?

4. Where does Charles end up throwing the coins?

5. What is Will Legate armed with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Lucas does not discourage Gavin from giving him a version of his own story?

2. In this chapter how does Faulkner show what he thinks is the main difference between men and women?

3. Describe how even in prison the white man is given precedent over the black man.

4. Why does Lucas want Charles to dig up Gowrie's body?

5. Why do the town think Lucas is guilty of the murder?

6. In what way does Charles think Lucas is different?

7. In what way does chapter five show the importance of women in southern American life?

8. Why do you think Charles does not argue with Lucas when he pulls him from the water, even though he wants to?

9. How does chapter five express Charles's need to come of age as a man?

10. In what way does Charles show he is the epiphany of a southern gentleman in chapter four?

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