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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children do Jason and Caroline Compson have?
(a) Four
(b) Ten
(c) Three
(d) Five

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

3. What are the people at the river doing?
(a) Fishing
(b) Washing clothes
(c) Bathing
(d) Sun bathing

4. What is the family's surname?
(a) Colby
(b) Dallas
(c) Compson
(d) Ewing

5. Who is credited with looking after the children?
(a) Benjy
(b) Caddy
(c) Caroline
(d) Dilsey

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Roskus carry back to the house on his back?

2. What does Maury do for a living?

3. Which one of the Compson children is the only one who does not have a narrative?

4. Who does Caddy name her daughter after?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What positive effect does Caddy have on Benjy's life?

2. What can the reader understand about Benjy?

3. Why do you think both Caddy and Quentin continuously search for love elsewhere?

4. Why do you think Benjy does not describe physical appearance?

5. Describe Quentin's role in the novel.

6. In what way can Benjy understand things better than most people?

7. Describe Caddy's role in the novel.

8. What is Quentin's relationship with his sister Caddy?

9. Describe Uncle Maury's role in the novel.

10. Why is Benjy's section so hard to understand?

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