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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the child do to Ballard's gift?
(a) Smashes it
(b) Sets it free
(c) Snaps its neck
(d) Chews its legs off

3. What words does John sing from his cell regularly?
(a) Oh Lordie
(b) No woman
(c) Swing low
(d) Fly home

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

5. What is the name of the church that Lester goes to in Chapter 10 (pp. 31-32)?
(a) Salvation Church
(b) Silverlake Church
(c) Sevier Church
(d) Sixmile Church

6. In Chapter 12 (pp. 35-36), how does Ballard remove the cow's head?
(a) A baseball bat
(b) A saw
(c) A tractor
(d) An axe

7. What is the name of Bill Parsons' sick old bird dog?
(a) Betsy
(b) Suzie
(c) Jumper
(d) Spot

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

9. Who punched Lester Ballard unconscious at the auction?
(a) C.B.
(b) Sheriff Wade
(c) Greer
(d) Buster

10. Which of the following is not something that happens in the melee in the police station?
(a) The Sleeping Woman slaps Ballard's face
(b) Ballard strangles the Sleeping Woman
(c) The Sleeping Woman knees Ballard in the groin
(d) Ballard stabs the Sleeping Woman with a pen

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

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

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

14. Who purchases the auctioned land?
(a) Greer
(b) The Dumpkeeper
(c) Buster
(d) Sheriff Wade

15. What is the first prize that Ballard wins at the fair?
(a) A stuffed tiger
(b) A goldfish
(c) A toy guitar
(d) A teddy bear

Short Answer Questions

1. What charge does the Sleeping Woman want to file against Ballard?

2. To what are the musicians and auctioneer compared at the end of Act 1?

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

4. Why can't Fred Kirby find his jar of whiskey?

5. The blacksmith warns that if the axe metal turns a certain color, the axe is ruined. What color does he say?

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