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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II, 128 - 141.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What work did Ballard do to make money to buy his rifle?
(a) Digging a ditch
(b) Restocking the general store
(c) Setting fence posts
(d) Plowing fields

2. What does the "Sevier County pocketknife society" do at their meetings outside the police station?
(a) Discuss knife-related issues
(b) Whittle
(c) Sharpen blades
(d) Trade knives

3. Which of the following is not a charge that has been lodged against Ballard?
(a) Public drunkeness
(b) Rape
(c) Lewdness toward a minor
(d) Assault and battery

4. Where does Fate inspect the car with the couple in the story of Chapter 15 (pp.44-45)?
(a) Grainger County
(b) Frog Mountain
(c) Jefferson County
(d) Sevier County

5. What does Ballard steal from Greer's property?
(a) A scythe
(b) A bail of hay
(c) A hen
(d) A slaughtered pig

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ballard deposit the dead man when he moves him away from the girl?

2. How far from the road is Lester Ballard's shack?

3. What does Lester Ballard do while having sex with the dead girl?

4. To what does McCarthy compare Darfuzzle and Ballard squatting on the porch?

5. What does Ballard do in the Spring?

(see the answer key)

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