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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Caroline think Jason will make a great banker?
(a) He wears glasses.
(b) He is good with figures.
(c) He has practical sense.
(d) He understands the value of money.

2. Who does Quentin say buys her school books?
(a) Jason
(b) Her teacher
(c) Her mother
(d) Her grandmother

3. What does Quentin buy the child at the bakery?
(a) Dog food
(b) Bread
(c) A doughnut
(d) Eggplant

4. Where does Jason go to check his shares?
(a) The telegram office
(b) The local newspaper
(c) The cinema
(d) The tobacco store

5. Who tries to attack Quentin?
(a) A skinhead
(b) The girl's brother
(c) Gerald Bland
(d) Jason

6. In what year does Quentin commit suicide?
(a) 1908
(b) 1911
(c) 1920
(d) 1910

7. What does Spoade call Quentin?
(a) Timeless
(b) Mr. Wimpy
(c) Shreve's wife
(d) Grandfather time

8. Where does Quentin try and leave the child?
(a) A police station
(b) In a park
(c) Outside a house
(d) Outside an orphanage

9. What is Mrs. Compson afraid Jason will do?
(a) Become an alcoholic
(b) Leave her
(c) Lose his job
(d) Lose his temper with Quentin

10. Where does Jason see Uncle Maury drinking?
(a) Behind a gravestone
(b) In church
(c) In a cave
(d) In the pantry

11. Why does Jason want to punish Caddy?
(a) For lumbering him with Quentin
(b) For not giving him enough money
(c) For bringing shame on the family
(d) For losing him his banking job

12. What does Mrs. Compson do with the checks that Caddy sends?
(a) Puts them in a scrap book
(b) Frames them
(c) Burns them
(d) Gives them to charity

13. What does Jason tell the telegraph operator to do with his telegraph?
(a) To pay for it himself
(b) To send it with love
(c) To throw it away
(d) To send it collect

14. Whose watch can Quentin hear ticking?
(a) His mother's
(b) Shreve's
(c) His father's
(d) His Grandfather's

15. What does Gerald think is the only thing women can do?
(a) Whore
(b) Nag
(c) Cook
(d) Lay on their backs

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Caddy offer Jason to get Quentin back?

2. Who is the only member of the family whom Mrs. Compson thinks has not been a curse on her?

3. What is the opening phrase of this section?

4. What is "to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim," a reference to?

5. Who does Quentin see rowing on the river?

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