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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. Where does Charles ride to with Gavin?

2. What are the two women doing outside the jail?

3. Which brother did Vinson go into business with?

4. Who is waiting in Gavin's office?

5. How many boys in the Gowrie family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Uncle Gavin's take on the civil rights struggle in the South?

2. Why does Charles hold such respect for Miss Habersham?

3. In what way are the Gowrie's only a small step above black people?

4. How is the sheriff proven wrong in chapter six?

5. Why does Gavin think Vinson Gowrie is buried in quicksand?

6. Why have southern black men not earned freedom in the south?

7. In chapter six, in what way does Charles' mother show that she is accepting the fact her son is growing up?

8. Why is Charles so interested in why the black worker is plowing the field?

9. Why is Charles' father so angry?

10. What is different between the blacks in the north and the black in the south?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the relationship between Aleck and Charles. Do you think they are more friends than master and servant? What does that say about the changing racial attitudes in south at that time? How different do you think there relationship would of changed if they met again today?

Essay Topic 2

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

1) Character

2) Setting

3) Plot

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story and Faulkner? How does Faulkner use character and setting to express these themes?

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