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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 the novel's narrator?

2. Who does Lucas tell Charles he needs to speak to?

3. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?

4. What was Lucas buying from the shop before the altercation?

5. What is the name of the man Lucas has been accused of killing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Lucas's appearance.

4. What is Uncle Gavin opinion on Lucas' request to dig up the dead body?

5. What is the unwritten code of the south when a black man commits a crime against a white man?

6. Describe the painting in Lucas's cabin.

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

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

9. Why are the black prisoners so quiet the night Lucas is taken into the prison?

10. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Faulkner uses stream of consciousness in his writing.

1) Describe what stream of consciousness is? What meaning does it bring to a novel?

2) Why do you think Faulkner uses stream of consciousness in Intruder in the Dust? How different would the novel be if he wrote in normal prose?

Essay Topic 3

Using two examples to support your argument, discuss the following statement. The aggressive and sometimes confused attitude the white characters show towards Lucas is a response to his own proud attitude.

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