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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. Why can the boy in the car not find his wallet when Fate asks for it?
(a) He is not wearing pants
(b) He is a derelict and stole the car
(c) He is blind
(d) His wallet was stolen

2. Which of the following is not among the items that Ballard purchases at the grocer's?
(a) Vienna sausages
(b) Chewing tobacco
(c) Can's of beans
(d) Loaves of bread

3. What does Ballard do with the girl's body at the end of Chapter 27 (pp. 93-95)?
(a) Disguises her as a pile of rags
(b) Buries her behind the house
(c) Hoists her to the attic
(d) Puts her on ice

4. As Ballard busies himself in the woods, who does he imagine speaking to?
(a) The Sheriff
(b) His father
(c) The dead girl from the car
(d) Greer

5. To what does the narrator compare the bodies that Ballard has arranged deep in his cave?
(a) Egyptian sarcophagi
(b) Sleeping campers
(c) Speed bumps
(d) Dead saints

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wrist watches is Ballard trying to sell?

2. What does Ballard initially forget when he leaves the car?

3. What does Ballard have hanging from his belt at the beginning of this section?

4. What was the nameless boy in Chapter 19 (pp. 57-60) putting in pigeons to make it appear that he was shooting them?

5. What food does Ballard buy in the general store on the other side of the mountain?

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