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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. How does the Sheriff travel around the town in Chapter 45 (pp. 160-168)?
(a) By helicopter
(b) A police cruiser
(c) A rowboat
(d) On foot

2. What does Ballard Leave outside when he goes into Ralph's house?
(a) His line of squirrels
(b) His rifle
(c) His money
(d) His shoes

3. According to the grocer, how long will it take Ballard to pay off his debt at the present rate?
(a) 131 years
(b) 105 years
(c) 94 years
(d) 178 years

4. Which of the following is not something Ballard salvages from the fire?
(a) His mattress
(b) His rifle
(c) His cookware
(d) The woman's body

5. What does Ballard do with the girl's body at the end of Chapter 27 (pp. 93-95)?
(a) Puts her on ice
(b) Disguises her as a pile of rags
(c) Hoists her to the attic
(d) Buries her behind the house

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Fate born?

2. What animals mill about the stream that passes through Ballard's cave?

3. What does Ballard ask Ralph's daughter to do?

4. Which star cluster does Ballard look upon from his cave after returning to the mountain?

5. To what does the narrator compare the bodies that Ballard has arranged deep in his cave?

Short Essay Questions

1. What crime problem is the Sheriff facing in this section?

2. Why does Ballard go to Blount County?

3. How do the police catch Kirby selling jars of whiskey?

4. Why does Ballard decide to move the dead girl's body to an upper room?

5. How does Ballard subsist as the harsh winter descends?

6. What does Ballard do at his old property, now Greer's?

7. How were the White Caps run out of Sevier?

8. What happens to Ballard when he tries to cross the creek?

9. What wakes Lester Ballard the night after his shopping spree in town?

10. How is Ballard spooked by his own footprints?

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