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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lester Ballard do while having sex with the dead girl?
(a) Sings along with the radio
(b) Cries
(c) Whispers in her ear
(d) Laughs

2. In Ralph's house, what surrounds the stove?
(a) Chickenwire
(b) Cinder blocks
(c) Wet rages
(d) Rings of soot and grease

3. About what do the Sheriff and the Deputy question Ballard?
(a) Ralph's housefire
(b) His shack burning down
(c) The dead couple in the car
(d) His skulking around Greer's place

4. How many wrist watches is Ballard trying to sell?
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Six
(d) Three

5. What was stolen from Fate during the night?
(a) His car
(b) His books
(c) Some guns
(d) Money

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare the bodies that Ballard has arranged deep in his cave?

2. Where does Ballard go the morning after his shack burns?

3. As Ballard busies himself in the woods, who does he imagine speaking to?

4. What does Ballard hear from the car idling on the side of the road?

5. Why does Ballard abruptly stop having sex with the dead girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story Fate tells about the 1899 hanging.

2. How does Ballard subsist as the harsh winter descends?

3. What happens to Ballard when he tries to cross the creek?

4. Why does Ballard decide to move the dead girl's body to an upper room?

5. Why does Ballard return several times to the idling car?

6. How do the police catch Kirby selling jars of whiskey?

7. How does Ballard react to Ralph's daughter's rejection of his advances?

8. How does Ballard's situation change in this section?

9. What does Ballard find in the running car on the side of the road?

10. How were the White Caps run out of Sevier?

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