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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 many wrist watches is Ballard trying to sell?
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Six
2. What does Ballard eat on his journey over the mountain?
(a) Weeds
(b) Moss
(c) Squirrel
(d) Onions
3. In Ralph's house, what surrounds the stove?
(a) Wet rages
(b) Chickenwire
(c) Rings of soot and grease
(d) Cinder blocks
4. What is Ballard approaching a the beginning of Chapter 43 (pp. 149-153)?
(a) Greer's house
(b) His cave
(c) The police station
(d) A pickup truck
5. What strikes Ballard as he crosses the rushing creek?
(a) A rock
(b) A log
(c) A piece of a tractor
(d) A dead boar
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Lester intimate to Ralph's daughter?
2. What does Ballard ask Ralph's daughter to do?
3. Which of the following is not something Ballard salvages from the fire?
4. To what does the narrator compare the bodies that Ballard has arranged deep in his cave?
5. What does Ballard mix with the squirrels to make a stew?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ballard react to Ralph's daughter's rejection of his advances?
2. What wakes Lester Ballard the night after his shopping spree in town?
3. In what state is the town in this section?
4. What does Ballard do on his trip into town?
5. How does Ballard's situation change in this section?
6. What happens to Ballard when he tries to cross the creek?
7. What point does Mr. Fox make to Ballard about his debt to the grocery?
8. How do the police catch Kirby selling jars of whiskey?
9. Why does Ballard go to Blount County?
10. What crime problem is the Sheriff facing in this section?
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