The Sound and the Fury Quiz
In the Compson family, everybody's talking. But what are they saying? Take this quiz to see if you can match the speaker with the statement.


 1. "If there's one thing gets under my skin, it's a dam hypocrite. A man that thinks anything he dont understand all about must be crooked and that first chance he gets he's morally bound to tell the third party what's none of his business to tell."
2. "I opened the gate and they stopped, turning. I was trying to say, and I caught her, trying to say, and she screamed and I was trying to say and trying and the bright shapes began to stop and I tried to get out."
3. "There was a red smear on the dial. When I saw it my thumb began to smart. I put the watch down and went into Shreve's room and got the iodine and painted the cut."
4. "Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat."
5. "Hush Benjy. Go away Charlie. He doesn't like you… Why Benjy. Aren't you going to let me stay here and talk to Charlie a while."
6. "They aint no luck going be on no place where one of they own chillen's name aint never spoke. … Raising a child not to know its own mammy's name."
7. "Whatever I do, it's your fault. If I'm bad, it's because I had to be. You made me. I wish I was dead. I wish we were all dead."
8. "Beller. Beller. You want something to beller about. All right then. Caddy. Caddy. Beller now. Caddy."
9. "They deliberately shut me out of their lives. It was always her and Quentin. They were always conspiring against me. Against you too, though you were too young to realise it."
10. "A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune."