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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 are the two women doing outside the jail?

2. Why is Charles so worried about finding the body?

3. Who digs at the mound?

4. What type of gun does the sheriff think killed Lucas?

5. Where does Charles ride to with Gavin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the people surrounding the jail quickly disperse when they arrive with the dead body?

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

3. Why do you think Lucas did not tell the full story in the first place?

4. How does Aleck Sander show his bravery during the trip back from the cemetery?

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

6. Why is Charles so interested in why the black worker is plowing the field?

7. In chapter six how does Uncle Gavin calm Charles down enough to take him to the cemetery?

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

9. Why do you think Mr. Gowrie asks his sons to dig up Vince's grave?

10. Why is Charles' father so angry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the relationship between Aleck and Charles. Do you think they are more friends than master and servant? What does that say about the changing racial attitudes in south at that time? How different do you think there relationship would of changed if they met again today?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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