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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 Boon supposed to do with the car when he returns from town?

2. What is the name of the bridge they pass over in this chapter?

3. What does the vehicle get stuck in?

4. Which two characters will walk the horse to the train?

5. What color hair does Miss Reba have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the ploughman's extortion of Boon express?

2. What themes does Chapter 3 introduce?

3. What does the Iron Bridge symbolize?

4. Why did Grandfather purchase an automobile?

5. How does beginning of Chapter 5 describe the transition between Mississippi and Tennessee?

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

7. Why can Boon not lock the automobile in the garage?

8. Why do they have to make the 23 train in Chapter 3?

9. How does Grandfather's purchase of the automobile show him to be a proud man?

10. Describe Ballenbaugh's.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foreshadowing plays a big part in the novel. What is foreshadowing? How does Faulkner use foreshadowing in the novel? What affect does it have on the novel's meaning?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Faulkner is a native of the southern states. Do you think it is better to write about what you know? What does a piece lack when it is written without a deep knowledge of the subject?

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