Absalom, Absalom Quizzes

Absalom, Absalom Quiz 1

1 Where does Quentin attend college?
Princeton

Dartmouth

Yale

Harvard
2 What other Faulkner book stars the Compson family?
Sartoris

The Sound and the Fury

As I Lay Dying

A Light in August
3 Where is Absalom, Absalom! set?
Dade County, Florida

Orange County, California

Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi

St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
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?
1863

1833

1920

1909
6 Why does Rosa Coldfield tell her story to Quentin?
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

She has a crush on him
7 In what year did Thomas Sutpen appear in Jefferson?
1909

1845

1865

1833
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

Whip them

Kill them

Fight with them
9 Why did no one attend the wedding of Thomas Sutpen and Ellen Coldfield?
No one liked Ellen Coldfield

It was during the war

The Coldfields were not a respected family in town

Everyone thought Thomas Sutpen was a thief and, worse, not a gentleman
10 What is the name of Sutpen's estate?
Sutpen's Castle

The Farm

Dark house

Sutpen's Hundred
11 Who is the second narrator of the Thomas Sutpen story?
Thomas Sutpen

Quentin Compson

Rosa Coldfield

Mr. Compson
12 What was Rosa's relation to Judith and Henry?
They were cousins

They were her son and daughter

No relation

They were her niece and nephew
13 Where does Mr. Coldfield go at the beginning of the war?
To his attic, for good

To Maine

To Canada

To the Confederate Army
14 How does Mr. Coldfield die?
He is shot as a spy

Crossing the Hudson River

He is shot in battle

Self-starvation
15 Where do Henry and Charles Bon meet?
At the University of Mississippi

At a slave auction

In their army regiment

At a dance in Jefferson
16 Henry wants Charles Bon to marry his sister Judith. Who is against this marriage?
Judith

Thomas Sutpen

Rosa Coldfield

Charles Bon
17 According to Mr. Coldfield, the person against this marriage tells Henry something about Charles Bon to convince Henry to forbid the marriage. What does Mr. Coldfield say that is?
Charles Bon is a thief

Charles Bon is black

Charles Bon has an octoroon "wife" and son in New Orleans

Charles Bon is Henry's brother
18 What does Henry do upon hearing this information?
He repudiates his birthright and leaves with Bon

He agrees to forbid the marriage

He offers to run Bon out of town

He tells Judith that she will marry him anyway
19 Where did Charles Bon grow up?
Jefferson

New Orleans

New York

Antigua
20 How does Charles Bon die?
He shoots himself

Thomas Sutpen kills him

Henry Sutpen kills him

In the war
21 Why does Rosa Coldfield leave Sutpen's estate after his return?
Judith does not like her

He insults her

She misses home

Clytie runs her off the grounds
22 Why did the three women wait for Sutpen's return?
Judith needed to hear what had happened to Henry and Charles Bon

There was nothing left for them to do but wait

The house was going to be repossessed

They missed him
23 At the end of chapter five, Rosa Coldfield reveals to Quentin something about Sutpen's estate. What?
It has become a secret drug den

Rosa still lives on the estate

Thomas Sutpen placed a curse on the house

Clytie is keeping "something" in the house
24 Who are the third narrators of the Thomas Sutpen story?
Henry and Judith

Quentin and Shreve

Rosa and Clytie

Mr. Coldfield and Quentin
25 Quentin begins to tell the Sutpen story in response to a request from an outsider. What is the request?
Tell me a Southern legend

Tell me about the South

Tell about your family

Do you know about ghosts?

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