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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 Uncle Gavin say the crowd did when Charles suggests that they ran?
2. Where does Uncle Gavin think Vinson's body has been buried?
3. Who sits in the car with Sheriff Hampton?
4. How much did Crawford bet Lucas that his gun would not shoot?
5. Whose body do they find?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the Gowrie's not lynch Lucas behind the store?
2. How do Gavin and the Sheriff plan to catch Crawford?
3. Why do you think Charles is so enraged by the behavior of the crowd?
4. Describe the Gowrie clan
5. In chapter six how does Uncle Gavin calm Charles down enough to take him to the cemetery?
6. Why does the Sheriff think that Lucas could not of killed Vinson?
7. Why have southern black men not earned freedom in the south?
8. How is the sheriff proven wrong in chapter six?
9. Why does Gavin think Vinson Gowrie is buried in quicksand?
10. Why do you think Mr. Gowrie asks his sons to dig up Vince's grave?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Faulkner sets the novel in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha. Do you think the county resembles any real life setting? Why do you think Faulkner has chosen to use a fictional county? What difference do you think it would make if he used a real county in Mississippi?
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
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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