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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the letter in Chapter 6 announce?
(a) The death of Charles Bon.
(b) The death of Rosa Coldfield.
(c) The love of Charles Bon for Judith Sutpen.
(d) The sale of Sutpen's hundred.

2. Who is the first person Rosa encounters when she enters Sutpen's house after the murder?
(a) Clytie.
(b) Judith.
(c) Henry.
(d) Charles Bon.

3. Who is Sutpen's first wife?
(a) Ellen Coldfield.
(b) Rosa Coldfield.
(c) A slave woman.
(d) The daughter of a French planter who lives in Haiti.

4. How far is Henry and Charles' university from Sutpen's estate?
(a) Eight miles.
(b) Forty miles.
(c) Four hundred miles.
(d) A day's train ride.

5. How old is Rosa at the time of Bon's death?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Fifty.

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

7. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Henry did after his final meeting with his father?
(a) Killed Bon immediately.
(b) Killed himself.
(c) Told Charles Bon that Henry knew he was partially black and also his brother.
(d) Left the army and returned to Sutpen's Hundred to protect Judith.

8. Who is the primary narrator of Chapter 8?
(a) Quentin.
(b) Henry.
(c) Shreve.
(d) Rosa.

9. Why does Shreve believe Charles changed the pictures?
(a) Because Charles intended to mail the picture to his wife and child after marrying Judith.
(b) Because Charles never loved Judith.
(c) So that when he died, Judith would be able to contact his wife and child.
(d) So that in case he died, Judith would find the picture and think that he had not been worth marrying.

10. What is the setting of Chapter 6?
(a) Quentin's dorm room at Harvard.
(b) The Compsons' porch.
(c) The Sutpen mansion.
(d) Rosa Coldfield's office.

11. Where does Thomas Sutpen go when he leaves his family as a boy?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) The West Indies.

12. At the close of Chapter 5, Rosa says there is something hidden somewhere. Where is it hidden?
(a) In the Compson house.
(b) In Sutpen's house.
(c) In her father's store.
(d) In the swamp.

13. Who makes Bon's coffin?
(a) Henry Sutpen.
(b) Judith Sutpen.
(c) Wash Jones.
(d) Thomas Sutpen.

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

15. What is the name of Charles and Henry's company during the war?
(a) The University Grays.
(b) The Oxford Company.
(c) The Mississippi Company.
(d) The Jefferson Regiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rosa leave Sutpen's estate in Chapter 5?

2. What reason does Rosa give for staying at Sutpen's estate after Bon's death?

3. Where does Jim Bond live?

4. What type of injury does General Compson incur in the war?

5. What does Judith do with the money she receives from selling Sutpen's store?

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