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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Sutpen reject his last (youngest) child?
(a) The child is born out of wedlock.
(b) The child is diseased.
(c) The child is a girl instead of a boy.
(d) The child is of mixed race.

2. When Quentin and Jason visit the Sutpen graveyard, who is buried there?
(a) Ellen and Thomas Sutpen and Charles Bon.
(b) Charles Bon and Ellen Sutpen.
(c) Ellen, Thomas, and Judith Sutpen.
(d) Ellen, Thomas, and Judith Sutpen; Charles Bon; and Charles Etienne Saint-Valery Bon.

3. What happens to Charles Bon's son after his mother dies?
(a) He becomes a servant in New Orleans.
(b) He comes to live at Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) He inherits her money and becomes a landowner.
(d) He is sent to boarding school.

4. Where do Quentin and Shreve believe that Henry was wounded?
(a) Sumpter.
(b) Shiloh.
(c) Gettysberg.
(d) Jefferson.

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

6. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Thomas Sutpen tells Henry at their last meeting?
(a) That Henry should move out of the country.
(b) That Henry cannot allow Bon to marry Judith.
(c) That Henry must keep Bon's identity a secret.
(d) That Henry must kill Charles Bon.

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

8. What do Shreve and Quentin imagine Charles Bon was waiting for when he anticipated the mail that would come to the university from Sutpen's Hundred?
(a) A letter from Judith's maid suggesting that Bon propose to Judith.
(b) A letter from Thomas Sutpen revealing that he was Bon's father.
(c) A letter from Judith professing her love.
(d) A letter from Ellen suggesting that Bon propose to Judith.

9. Who is telling the Sutpen story in Chapter 7?
(a) Quentin and Rosa.
(b) Rosa and Shreve.
(c) Quentin and Shreve.
(d) Quentin and Jason.

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

11. Who is Penelope?
(a) Sutpen's sister.
(b) Sutpen's daughter.
(c) Sutpen's mare, who bears a colt the same day Sutpen's last child is born.
(d) Sutpen's mother.

12. Who says a prayer at Charles Bon's funeral?
(a) Thomas Sutpen.
(b) Clytie.
(c) Henry.
(d) Theophilus McCaslin.

13. Who is discussing the Sutpen story in Chapter 6?
(a) Quentin and Rosa.
(b) Quentin and Jason.
(c) Quentin and Henry.
(d) Quentin and Shreve.

14. Where is Sutpen's funeral?
(a) At Jefferson's Methodist church.
(b) In the woods near Sutpen's Hundred.
(c) At Jefferson's Catholic church.
(d) At Sutpen's Hundred.

15. Who do Quentin and Shreve believe managed Sutpen's first wife's money?
(a) General Compson.
(b) Sutpen.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) Charles Bon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Shreve from?

2. Where does Thomas Sutpen go when he leaves his family as a boy?

3. What is Judith holding in her hand the first time Rosa sees her after the murder?

4. What is the setting of Chapter 8?

5. What is Shreve's nickname for Thomas Sutpen?

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