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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 Aunt Louisa do when she arrives in Jefferson?

2. What is special about the paper Ringo acquires for Granny?

3. The travel of findings Grumby and Ab is ______.

4. How is Ab when Bayard, Ringo and Buck find him?

5. What first begins to concern Bayard about Ab's genuineness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the affect of "Vendee" picking up only days after "Reposte in Tertio"?

2. Who is the most effective weapon against the Union army? How so?

3. What is the purpose of the rainy weather in "Vendee"?

4. Are Drusilla and Sartoris' efforts admirable? Why or why not?

5. How does Bayard feel about killing Grumby? Why?

6. Do the old social rules of women and men in the south still apply in "The Unvanquished"? Why or why not?

7. Does John Sartoris want to marry Drusilla? Why or why not?

8. Why doesn't Bayard kill Ab?

9. Why does the Union army burn many plantation houses?

10. Why do Bayard and Ringo hold Ab responsible for Granny's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the title "The Unvanquished" and why it is an appropriate or inappropriate title for the book. What meaning does this word hold for this story?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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