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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following is listed as Lester Ballard's lineage?
(a) Celtic and Negro
(b) Cherokee and Negro
(c) Scottish and Navajo
(d) Saxon and Celtic

4. 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) Grainger County
(d) Jefferson County

5. What does the speaker in Chapter 19 (pp. 57-60) box at a carnival?
(a) A bear
(b) A burro
(c) A gorilla
(d) A kangaroo

Short Answer Questions

1. Who punched Lester Ballard unconscious at the auction?

2. What is the Dumpkeeper's name?

3. What does the child do to Ballard's gift?

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

5. Where does Garfuzzle tell Ballard that the Sleeping Woman has gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Lester Ballard.

2. Explain how the boy that came through town could always shoot birds in the air.

3. Describe the scene created by McCarthy at the beginning of the novel.

4. Describe the baby of Ballard's friend, Ralph.

5. How does Ballard win three prizes?

6. How did Ballard get his rifle?

7. Describe the Dumpkeeper's situation at home.

8. What happened to Lester Ballard's parents?

9. What transpires between Ballard and the woman he finds sleeping on Frog Mountain?

10. Why does the unnamed man in Chapter 5 (pp. 17-18) decide he does not like Lester Ballard?

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