Q 01/05

The title of The Sound and the Fury comes from a bleak speech about life in which Shakespeare tragedy?

A) Hamlet

B) King Lear

C) Macbeth

D) Othello

Answer · why

C) Macbeth

Macbeth supplies the title: told that his wife is dead, the king compares life to a fool's noisy story that means nothing. Faulkner then opens the nov...

Q 02/05

Benjy Compson narrates the opening section of The Sound and the Fury although he is unable to do what?

A) Listen

B) Speak

C) Walk

D) See

Answer · why

B) Speak

Speak is the one thing he cannot do, yet his section relays other people's talk in full, even when he does not understand it. He bellows or moans, and...

Q 03/05

The pasture sold to pay for Quentin Compson's schooling in The Sound and the Fury becomes what?

A) A racetrack

B) A freight depot

C) A cemetery

D) A golf course

Answer · why

D) A golf course

A golf course replaces the pasture that had been Benjy's share of the family land. The players' shouts for a caddie remind him of his absent sister, a...

Q 04/05

William Faulkner said The Sound and the Fury grew from the image of a little girl doing what?

A) Climbing a tree

B) Crossing a creek

C) Riding a pony

D) Chasing fireflies

Answer · why

A) Climbing a tree

Climbing a tree to peek at a funeral, the girl shows her muddy underwear to the brothers looking up from below. Faulkner built Caddy Compson, and then...

Q 05/05

On the last day of his life in The Sound and the Fury, what does Quentin Compson deliberately break?

A) A mirror

B) His glasses

C) His watch

D) A window

Answer · why

C) His watch

His watch is one way Quentin tries to stop knowing the time, along with keeping away from his own shadow. Clock bells go on reminding him of the hour ...