Absalom, Absalom Quizzes

Absalom, Absalom Quiz 1

1 Where does Quentin attend college?
Dartmouth

Yale

Princeton

Harvard
2 What other Faulkner book stars the Compson family?
As I Lay Dying

The Sound and the Fury

A Light in August

Sartoris
3 Where is Absalom, Absalom! set?
Dade County, Florida

St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi

Orange County, California
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?
1909

1863

1920

1833
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?
1845

1833

1909

1865
8 Thomas Sutpen liked to do something with his slaves that horrified his wife and son (but not his daughter!). What was it?
Whip them

Rape them

Kill them

Fight with them
9 Why did no one attend the wedding of Thomas Sutpen and 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

No one liked Ellen Coldfield
10 What is the name of Sutpen's estate?
Sutpen's Castle

The Farm

Sutpen's Hundred

Dark house
11 Who is the second narrator of the Thomas Sutpen story?
Mr. Compson

Quentin Compson

Thomas Sutpen

Rosa Coldfield
12 What was Rosa's relation to Judith and Henry?
They were her son and daughter

No relation

They were her niece and nephew

They were cousins
13 Where does Mr. Coldfield go at the beginning of the war?
To Canada

To his attic, for good

To Maine

To the Confederate Army
14 How does Mr. Coldfield die?
He is shot in battle

Crossing the Hudson River

Self-starvation

He is shot as a spy
15 Where do Henry and Charles Bon meet?
In their army regiment

At a dance in Jefferson

At a slave auction

At the University of Mississippi
16 Henry wants Charles Bon to marry his sister Judith. Who is against this marriage?
Judith

Rosa Coldfield

Charles Bon

Thomas Sutpen
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 has an octoroon "wife" and son in New Orleans

Charles Bon is black

Charles Bon is Henry's brother

Charles Bon is a thief
18 What does Henry do upon hearing this information?
He agrees to forbid the marriage

He tells Judith that she will marry him anyway

He offers to run Bon out of town

He repudiates his birthright and leaves with Bon
19 Where did Charles Bon grow up?
Antigua

New York

New Orleans

Jefferson
20 How does Charles Bon die?
He shoots himself

In the war

Thomas Sutpen kills him

Henry Sutpen kills him
21 Why does Rosa Coldfield leave Sutpen's estate after his return?
Judith does not like her

Clytie runs her off the grounds

She misses home

He insults her
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

They missed him

The house was going to be repossessed
23 At the end of chapter five, Rosa Coldfield reveals to Quentin something about Sutpen's estate. What?
Rosa still lives on the estate

It has become a secret drug den

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?
Mr. Coldfield and Quentin

Quentin and Shreve

Rosa and Clytie

Henry and Judith
25 Quentin begins to tell the Sutpen story in response to a request from an outsider. What is the request?
Do you know about ghosts?

Tell about your family

Tell me about the South

Tell me a Southern legend

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