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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 the name of Charles's black servant?

2. What does Uncle Gavin and the Sheriff want the boys to do?

3. Who does the sheriff phone to organize an exhumation order?

4. What does Lucas send to Charles in return for Charles sending his wife a dress?

5. What does Charles consider doing so he does not have to see Lucas lynched?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lucas not popular with white people in the town?

2. Why does Miss Habersham help Lucas out?

3. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

4. Describe the painting in Lucas's cabin.

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

6. Describe what Charles remembers about Lucas from four years ago

7. What is Charles' attitude towards his black servant Aleck Sander?

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

9. Why is Sheriff Hampton so reluctant to react to Charles story about the mule?

10. In what way does chapter five express the segregation between black and white people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Closely consider at the novel's plot.

1) Identify the main plot points of the story. How do they work towards a final resolution?

2) How does Faulkner use character to further the plot?

3) How does Faulkner use dialogue to further the plot.

Essay Topic 2

Intruder in the Dust is not only a southern Gothic novel, but it also crosses into other genres. What other genres does Faulkner use? What affect do these genre conventions have on the meaning of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the story Charles thinks he owes Lucas a favor and there are also many references to the southern gentlemen code. What is the southern gentlemen code? In what way does Faulkner present the southern gentlemen code as a backward and damaging tradition? In what ways do you think the characters and setting would lose and gain from the breakdown of the code?

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