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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nameless boy in Chapter 19 (pp. 57-60) putting in pigeons to make it appear that he was shooting them?
(a) Rice
(b) Firecrackers
(c) Helium
(d) Baking soda

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

3. Which of the following is not one of the terms townspeople assign to Ballard at the end of this section?
(a) Lean
(b) Mad
(c) Alcoholic
(d) Bitter

4. What does Gresham sing when they bury his wife?
(a) Camptown Ladies
(b) Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!
(c) The Chickenshit Blues
(d) Gaily the Trombadour

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the sleeping woman throw at Ballard?
(a) An apple
(b) A stick
(c) A rock
(d) Her shoe

11. According to CB, what might not be worth fifty cents in a year?
(a) A war bond
(b) A diamond
(c) An acre of land
(d) A dollar

12. What is Lester Ballard's only food for dinner on his first night in his new house?
(a) A chocolate bar
(b) Potatoes
(c) Squirrel
(d) Carrots

13. Where does Ballard figure John goes after leaving jail?
(a) To execution
(b) He does not know
(c) Back home
(d) To county prison

14. How much money does the blonde daughter demand of Ballard to show him her breasts?
(a) Fifty cents
(b) One dollar
(c) Twenty-five cents
(d) Ten cents

15. How many days is Ballard kept in jail?
(a) Five
(b) Three
(c) Nine
(d) Seven

Short Answer Questions

1. What heavy object does Lester lug up to his new house on the first day?

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

3. What does Ballard's friend's wife bring Ballard while he waits for her husband?

4. Of what does the sleeping woman smell?

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

(see the answer keys)

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