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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 is the Sheriff's surname?

2. How are they going to transport the body back to the truck?

3. What does Lucas lay on the bare cots?

4. When does Charles think the Gowries will go after Lucas?

5. What do the black prisoners normally do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Charles does not argue with Lucas when he pulls him from the water, even though he wants to?

2. Describe how even in prison the white man is given precedent over the black man.

3. In what way does chapter five express the segregation between black and white people?

4. Why are the black prisoners so quiet the night Lucas is taken into the prison?

5. Why do the town think Lucas is guilty of the murder?

6. What is significant about the man on the mule in chapter four?

7. What is Uncle Gavin opinion on Lucas' request to dig up the dead body?

8. Why does Charles become so involved in the murder case?

9. Why is Lucas not popular with white people in the town?

10. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's dialogue. How does Faulkner's dialogue contribute to the following areas:

1) Character

2) Setting

3) Plot

Essay Topic 2

Intruder in the Dust is not only a southern Gothic novel, but it also crosses into other genres. What other genres does Faulkner use? What affect do these genre conventions have on the meaning of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Faulkner sets the novel in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha. Do you think the county resembles any real life setting? Why do you think Faulkner has chosen to use a fictional county? What difference do you think it would make if he used a real county in Mississippi?

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