Absalom, Absalom Study Guide

1. Where does Quentin attend college?

• Princeton
• Dartmouth
• Yale
• Harvard

2. What other Faulkner book stars the Compson family?

• The Sound and the Fury
• As I Lay Dying
• A Light in August
• Sartoris

3. Where is Absalom, Absalom! set?

• Orange County, California
• Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
• Dade County, Florida
• St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

4. Who is the first narrator of the Thomas Sutpen story?

• Mr. Compson
• Clytie Sutpen
• Rosa Coldfield
• Quentin Compson

5. In what year does the book open?

• 1833
• 1863
• 1909
• 1920

6. Why does Rosa Coldfield tell her story to Quentin?

• She has a crush on him
• He is the only young man in town
• His father rescued her from Sutpen's wrath
• His grandfather was Thomas Sutpen's only real friend

7. In what year did Thomas Sutpen appear in Jefferson?

• 1833
• 1845
• 1865
• 1909

8. Thomas Sutpen liked to do something with his slaves that horrified his wife and son (but not his daughter!). What was it?

• Fight with them
• Rape them
• Kill them
• Whip them

9. Why did no one attend the wedding of Thomas Sutpen and Ellen Coldfield?

• It was during the war
• No one liked Ellen Coldfield
• Everyone thought Thomas Sutpen was a thief and, worse, not a gentleman
• The Coldfields were not a respected family in town

10. What is the name of Sutpen's estate?

• Dark house
• The Farm
• Sutpen's Castle
• Sutpen's Hundred