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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. Who drives Miss Habersham to the cemetery?
2. What was Lucas buying from the shop before the altercation?
3. What does Uncle Gavin and the Sheriff want the boys to do?
4. What does Charles do during breakfast?
5. Where does Uncle Gavin tell Lucas he shot the man?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Charles still know that he still owes Lucas a debt?
2. Why does Lucas want Charles to dig up Gowrie's body?
3. Why do the town think Lucas is guilty of the murder?
4. In what way does chapter five express the segregation between black and white people?
5. Why is Sheriff Hampton so reluctant to react to Charles story about the mule?
6. Describe how even in prison the white man is given precedent over the black man.
7. Do you think it was unusual for a black man to invite a white boy back to his cabin?
8. Why are the black prisoners so quiet the night Lucas is taken into the prison?
9. Why is Lucas not popular with white people in the town?
10. What is Uncle Gavin opinion on Lucas' request to dig up the dead body?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Intruder in the Dust is part of the southern Gothic genre.
1) What are the conventions of the southern Gothic genre in terms of character, language and plot?
2) In what way does Intruder in the Dust subvert the southern Gothic genre?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the novel's chronological setting.
1) What were the main concerns during the 1940s. How does Faulkner express these concerns?
2) In what ways do you think the novels meaning would change if it was set in today's society?
Essay Topic 3
Faulkner uses stream of consciousness in his writing.
1) Describe what stream of consciousness is? What meaning does it bring to a novel?
2) Why do you think Faulkner uses stream of consciousness in Intruder in the Dust? How different would the novel be if he wrote in normal prose?
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