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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who posts bond so Sutpen can be released from jail?
(a) One of Sutpen's slaves.
(b) The Methodist minister.
(c) Mr. Coldfield and General Compson.
(d) Mr. Akers

2. How does Charles Bon's son die?
(a) He is killed by Thomas Sutpen.
(b) He dies of old age.
(c) He dies of yellow fever.
(d) He is killed in a bar fight.

3. Why does Sutpen leave his first wife?
(a) He discovers she is an adulteress.
(b) He discovers she is of mixed race.
(c) He discovers she has a child by another man.
(d) He hates her father.

4. To whom is Judith engaged?
(a) Thomas Compson.
(b) Charles Bon.
(c) Charles Akers.
(d) The Methodist minister.

5. Where does Thomas Sutpen get the money to build his estate?
(a) No one knows.
(b) A family inheritance.
(c) He is a horse trader.
(d) He had been a banker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization is Sutpen asked to join, but which he declines to be a part of?

2. Who is the narrator of Chapter 5?

3. What has Henry Sutpen come to Sutpen's estate to do?

4. Who rescues Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon from being indicted?

5. Who makes Bon's coffin?

(see the answer key)

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