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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lester Ballard's friend Darfuzzle speaks in a garbled way?
(a) He is developmentally impaired
(b) He has a collapsed jaw
(c) He is deaf
(d) He is German

2. What does Ballard offer to trade Fred Kirby for a jar of whiskey?
(a) A lady's dress
(b) A string of rabbits
(c) His rifle
(d) A pocketknife

3. Whose house is auctioned at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Greer's
(b) The Dumpkeeper's
(c) C.B.'s
(d) Ballard's

4. How did Lester Ballard's father die?
(a) He hanged himself
(b) He died of cancer
(c) He died fighting in the war
(d) He died in a car crash

5. What is the name of the black boy in the car outside Lester's house?
(a) Joe
(b) Nick
(c) David
(d) Bobby

6. What type of bird does Ballard chase down while walking to a friend's house?
(a) A pigeon
(b) A dove
(c) A robin
(d) A lark

7. Which of the following is listed as Lester Ballard's lineage?
(a) Saxon and Celtic
(b) Cherokee and Negro
(c) Scottish and Navajo
(d) Celtic and Negro

8. What noise keeps Lester Ballard awake at night?
(a) Chirping crickets
(b) Shouting of teenagers in the woods
(c) Howling dogs
(d) Passing cars

9. What target does Ballard shoot at the fair's shooting gallery?
(a) A bowling pin
(b) A bullseye
(c) A silhouette cutout
(d) A card

10. What does Ballard find in the boards of the house his first night there?
(a) A possum
(b) Termites
(c) A black snake
(d) A boar's skull

11. What does the blacksmith do with the axe-blade after cooling the metal?
(a) He throws it out because it's cracked
(b) He polishes it
(c) He grinds it
(d) He fits it for a handle

12. What does Gresham sing when they bury his wife?
(a) The Chickenshit Blues
(b) Gaily the Trombadour
(c) Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
(d) Camptown Ladies

13. Where is Ballard when he finds a woman sleeping under a tree?
(a) His old property
(b) Sevier County limits
(c) The dump
(d) Frog Mountain

14. What does Lester burn in the hearth to start a fire?
(a) A rag doll
(b) Newspaper
(c) A kerosene-soaked rag
(d) Lighter fluid

15. What does Ballard's friend's wife bring Ballard while he waits for her husband?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Water
(c) Coffee
(d) Cornbread

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 9 (p. 25), what does Ballard fail to shoot in the woods?

2. Why did the young Lester Ballard beat up the Finney boy?

3. Where is the man in the cell opposite of Ballard from?

4. What words does John sing from his cell regularly?

5. What animals do the Dumpkeeper and Ballard shoot together?

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