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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 full name of the story's narrator?

2. What does the man say the price is to pull the vehicle from the mud?

3. What does Boon give Lucius to look after?

4. What is Ballenbaugh's?

5. Whose staff did Boon join at the hunting camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Binford abuse the women in his charge?

2. Why is Lucius so horrified that Boon has changed clothes?

3. What does the conversation in Chapter 4 between Boon and Lucius show about both characters?

4. In what ways can Maury be seen as a positive character?

5. What does the Iron Bridge symbolize?

6. Summarize the novel.

7. How does the final scene in Chapter 4 express the theme of racism?

8. What lies does Lucius tell in Chapter 3?

9. How does Miss Reba think Sam can assist them?

10. What is the unspoken agreement between Father and John?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Reivers is written in three parts. Examine the structure of the novel.

1) In what way does the first few chapters show the importance of a child's upbringing.

2) What themes are developed in the middle part of the novel?

3) Why do you think Grandfather stops Lucius' father from beating him at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Faulkner's writing style. How long are his sentences and paragraphs? What kind of language does he use? What meaning and tone does his style give to the novel? What do you think his style says about him as a person?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Lucius and Boon.

1) What is their relationship with their parents?

2) What is their relationship to each other?

3) Do you think Boon feels inferior to Lucius? How does this affect their relationship.

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