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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III, 169 - 197.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does the blacksmith charge to sharpen and repair Ballard's axe?
(a) Seven dollars
(b) One dollar
(c) Two dollars
(d) Four dollars

2. To what are the musicians and auctioneer compared at the end of Act 1?
(a) A shooting gallery
(b) A band of thieves
(c) A line of fence posts
(d) The pied piper and his rats

3. What does Ballard hear from the car idling on the side of the road?
(a) Screaming
(b) The radio
(c) Groaning
(d) Crackling flames

4. What does Lester intimate to Ralph's daughter?
(a) That the disfigured child is hers
(b) That her father touches her
(c) That she is a prostitute
(d) That she wants him

5. What does Ballard ask Ralph's daughter to do?
(a) Lend him some money
(b) Show him her breasts
(c) Dance with him
(d) Give him the disfigured child

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Sheriff travel around the town in Chapter 45 (pp. 160-168)?

2. In what year does Lester Ballard die?

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

4. What season is setting in in Chapter 39 (pp. 136-137)?

5. What does Ballard call the present he brings his friend's child?

(see the answer key)

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