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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Benji spend most of his time watching?
(a) The washing machine
(b) Television
(c) The golf course
(d) School girls

2. What does Benjy say Caddy smells like?
(a) Boys
(b) Strawberries
(c) Water
(d) Trees

3. How is Luster related to Dilsey?
(a) He is her cousin.
(b) He is her nephew.
(c) He is her grandson.
(d) He is her brother.

4. How much money does Uncle Maury want from his sister?
(a) $100
(b) $500
(c) $25
(d) $50

5. Where does Quentin say Benjy should be sent?
(a) The work house
(b) Jail
(c) The asylum
(d) A circus

6. What color tie is Quentin's companion wearing?
(a) White
(b) Yellow
(c) Red
(d) Brown

7. Why does TP have to drive the carriage?
(a) He is the only person who knows how.
(b) He can control the horses.
(c) Roskus is unwell.
(d) If he does not drive it, Benjy will cry.

8. Who is the only sibling Caroline can relate to?
(a) Caddy
(b) Quentin
(c) Jason
(d) Herbert

9. How does Maury get the money he uses to invest in business?
(a) He borrows it.
(b) He steals it.
(c) He cons it out of people.
(d) He pawns family heirlooms.

10. Where is Jason employed?
(a) A construction site
(b) The town bank
(c) A gas station
(d) A local store

11. How does Benjy sense that something has changed about Caddy?
(a) She stops coming home from school.
(b) She shouts at him.
(c) She spends all her time in the bathroom.
(d) She has stopped smelling of trees.

12. Who is Quentin's favorite sibling?
(a) Jason
(b) Dilsey
(c) Benjy
(d) Caddy

13. What does Roskus tell TP he is losing?
(a) His good looks
(b) His eye sight
(c) The use of his right hand
(d) His children

14. What does Benjy clasp in his hand in the carriage?
(a) A broken flower
(b) A mouse
(c) His mother's hair
(d) A picture of Caddy

15. In what American state does Faulkner set the novel?
(a) Indiana
(b) Mississippi
(c) Ohio
(d) New York

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Compson worry about leaving in the house?

2. Why does Versh tell Caddy her mother will whip her?

3. Where does Dilsey tell Luster to take Benjy?

4. What does Caroline wish for the sake of her husband and children?

5. What does Benji have no understanding of?

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