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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 does Gavin tell Charles never to stop doing?

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

3. Who was wrong about the men not lynching during the day time?

4. Who does not want Charles's mother to go to the jail?

5. What part of the body was Vinson shot?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter six, in what way does Charles' mother show that she is accepting the fact her son is growing up?

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

3. Describe Crawford and Vinson's lumber business.

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

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

6. Why does Charles hold such respect for Miss Habersham?

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

8. Why does Gavin think Vinson Gowrie is buried in quicksand?

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

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

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

In what way does Falkner subvert stereotypes in this book? Take one character and discuss your first impression of that character? Does Faulkner challenge that first impression?

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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