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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Benji spend most of his time watching?
(a) School girls
(b) The washing machine
(c) The golf course
(d) Television

2. How does Benjy sense that something has changed about Caddy?
(a) She has stopped smelling of trees.
(b) She shouts at him.
(c) She spends all her time in the bathroom.
(d) She stops coming home from school.

3. Who does Mrs. Compson worry about leaving in the house?
(a) Quentin
(b) Caddy
(c) Benjy
(d) Jason

4. What does Quentin's father sell to send him to Harvard?
(a) The family house
(b) His car
(c) Land
(d) The family business

5. How old is Benjy on the day Faulkner recites his narrative?
(a) 21
(b) 40
(c) 30
(d) 33

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dilsey tell Luster to take Benjy?

2. Where does Quentin say Benjy should be sent?

3. What does Caddy do when Charlie wants Benjy to go away?

4. Which one of the Compson children is the only one who does not have a narrative?

5. What does Benji have no understanding of?

(see the answer key)

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