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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. Who does the sheriff say sold the gun to Crawford Gowrie?

2. What part of the body was Vinson shot?

3. Whose body do they find?

4. Why did Miss Habersham suggest they leave the horse?

5. What does Miss Habersham need while she is standing guard at the jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the sheriff proven wrong in chapter six?

2. What is different between the blacks in the north and the black in the south?

3. Why does the Sheriff think that Lucas could not of killed Vinson?

4. Who does the sheriff think the man is who passed Charles on the road to the cemetery?

5. For what reason does Charles think Lucas was not lynched?

6. How do Gavin and the Sheriff plan to catch Crawford?

7. Describe the Gowrie clan

8. In what way are the Gowrie's only a small step above black people?

9. Why did the Gowrie's not lynch Lucas behind the store?

10. Why have southern black men not earned freedom in the south?

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

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story and Faulkner? How does Faulkner use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 3

Intruder in the Dust is part of the southern Gothic genre.

1) What are the conventions of the southern Gothic genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2) In what way does Intruder in the Dust subvert the southern Gothic genre?

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