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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 Francis Tarwater do to the cabin?
(a) He cleans the cabin.
(b) He leaves the cabin.
(c) He floods the cabin.
(d) He lights matches and burns it down.

2. Who dies in the beginning of “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?
(a) Francis Tarwater’s great uncle.
(b) Francis Tarwater’s
(c) Francis Tarwater’s father.
(d) Francis Tarwater.

3. How old is Mary Fortune?
(a) Three years old.
(b) Mary Fortune is an infant.
(c) Twelve years old.
(d) Nine years old.

4. What does Dr. Block tell Asbury?
(a) That he is not dying.
(b) That he is not a genius.
(c) That his mother is not dying.
(d) That he is dying.

5. What does Parker have all over the front of his body?
(a) Hair.
(b) Tattoos.
(c) A rash.
(d) A burn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is at Tilman’s house when he returns?

2. What animals does Mrs. Turpin water at the end of “Revelation”?

3. What does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell?

4. Where do Joy and the Bible salesman go?

5. Who is Calhoun trying to vindicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Turpin do in the waiting room?

2. How does the old man wish to be buried in “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?

3. What does Rufus do to the neighbors?

4. Under what assumption does the daughter in “Good Country People” and mother trust the Bible salesman?

5. What happens at the end of “The Displaced Person”? How is it an example of irony?

6. Why does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell parcels of his land?

7. How are the two teenage girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” hypocritical?

8. Why doesn’t the grandson in “The Artificial Nigger” ever want to travel to the city again?

9. Why does Tarwater destroy all evidence of his former life and move away?

10. What happens to Mary Fortune?

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