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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 does Granny offer to Colonel Dick?

2. What does the Sartoris family hide their silver in?

3. While discussing Sartoris, Uncle Buck shouts loud ______.

4. What happened at Vicksburg?

5. Why does Colonel Dick leave Granny's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Bayard and Ringo keep an eye on Loosh?

2. Are slaves able to be free in "Retreat"? Is it true freedom?

3. Are people's loyalties in "Raid" predictable or unpredictable? How?

4. Does Bayard glorify his father? How and why does he regard him the way he does?

5. Why isn't Uncle Buck fighting with the army?

6. Does Bayard understand the Civil War? How does he see it?

7. In "Raid," which is more important to people: freedom or personal sentiment? How and why?

8. How is the reader's perception of the war in "Raid" different than in prior chapters?

9. How does "Raid" paint women?

10. How easy is it to gauge humor in "Retreat"? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Post-war Jefferson, Mississippi is not much less tumulus than during the war. As the North is reforming the people's ways of life, characters like John Sartoris become more extreme in maintaining their way of life. Discuss the extremis move back to tradition in "The Unvanquished": what are characters' motives? What is Faulkner portraying about the nature of the post-war south?

Essay Topic 2

Race is a significant and theme of "The Unvanquished": slaves are not all treated equally by characters and each character has a different agenda. Discuss the nature of race in the book and how the various dimensions are developed and the role they play.

Essay Topic 3

Through "The Unvanquished," the reader watches Bayard mature from his idyllic childhood to adulthood. This transition is instigated through both nature and experience. Discuss the affect Bayard's youthful and matured perspectives offer to the book and Faulkner's explanation of the natures of youth and adulthood.

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