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Absalom, Absalom Quiz 1

  • 1. Where does Quentin attend college?
    •     Harvard
    •     Yale
    •     Princeton
    •     Dartmouth

  • 2. What other Faulkner book stars the Compson family?
    •     As I Lay Dying
    •     A Light in August
    •     The Sound and the Fury
    •     Sartoris

  • 3. Where is Absalom, Absalom! set?
    •     Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
    •     Orange County, California
    •     St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
    •     Dade County, Florida

  • 4. Who is the first narrator of the Thomas Sutpen story?
    •     Quentin Compson
    •     Clytie Sutpen
    •     Mr. Compson
    •     Rosa Coldfield

  • 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
    •     His grandfather was Thomas Sutpen's only real friend
    •     His father rescued her from Sutpen's wrath
    •     He is the only young man in town

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

  • 9. Why did no one attend the wedding of Thomas Sutpen and Ellen Coldfield?
    •     It was during the war
    •     Everyone thought Thomas Sutpen was a thief and, worse, not a gentleman
    •     The Coldfields were not a respected family in town
    •     No one liked Ellen Coldfield

  • 10. What is the name of Sutpen's estate?
    •     Sutpen's Hundred
    •     Dark house
    •     Sutpen's Castle
    •     The Farm

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