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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the auctioneer give his pitch?
(a) A stack of hay bales
(b) The front porch of the house
(c) The bed of a truck
(d) A makeshift stage

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

3. What does Ballard call the present he brings his friend's child?
(a) A playpretty
(b) A gifty
(c) A bauble
(d) A doodad

4. What does Ballard offer to show the Sheriff when they take him away?
(a) A body
(b) His buttocks
(c) The path
(d) His rifle

5. What is Ballard's friend's name?
(a) Connor
(b) Jeremiah
(c) Ralph
(d) Dave

6. Why did the young Lester Ballard beat up the Finney boy?
(a) Finney was black
(b) Finney would not fetch his ball
(c) Finney called him a name
(d) Finney stole his lunch

7. Which of the following is not listed among the disabled child's playthings?
(a) Rats
(b) Spiders
(c) Food tins
(d) Cockroaches

8. What free gifts are being handed out at the auction?
(a) Silver dollars
(b) Toy cars
(c) Arrow heads
(d) Ball caps

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

10. What is the sleeping woman wearing when Ballard finds her?
(a) Pajamas
(b) A sweatsuit
(c) A gown
(d) Nothing

11. What plastic animals are used in the first game that Ballard plays at the fair?
(a) Bears
(b) Mice
(c) Ducks
(d) Fish

12. Why does Lester Ballard's friend Darfuzzle speaks in a garbled way?
(a) He is German
(b) He is developmentally impaired
(c) He is deaf
(d) He has a collapsed jaw

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

14. How did Lester Ballard's father die?
(a) He died fighting in the war
(b) He hanged himself
(c) He died of cancer
(d) He died in a car crash

15. Who stares after Lester as he leaves town?
(a) The Deputy
(b) The Sleeping Woman
(c) The Sheriff
(d) Fate

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the blonde daughter doing when Ballard approaches her?

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

3. What dry, tasteless food does Ballard cook over an open flame in his shack in Chapter 21(pp. 66-67)?

4. Where is the man in the cell opposite of Ballard from?

5. What is Lester Ballard's only food for dinner on his first night in his new house?

(see the answer keys)

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