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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the orchard keeper go late at night?
(a) The Blue Fly Inn.
(b) Green Valley Inn.
(c) The pit with Kenneth Rattner's body.
(d) Knoxville.

2. What is Kenneth Rattner doing as the novel begins?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Hitchhiking.
(c) Reading a map.
(d) Playing checkers.

3. What is Kenneth's ultimate decision?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Knoxville.
(d) Macon.

4. What does Sylder do after he is fired?
(a) Calls his wife.
(b) Files for unemployment.
(c) Tries to commit suicide.
(d) Goes to a bar and then drives.

5. How much time has passed since the last section of the novel?
(a) Six months.
(b) Six years.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Six days.

6. How had Kenneth injured his leg?
(a) Cut from barbed wire.
(b) Motorcycle burn.
(c) Gunshot wound.
(d) A dog bite.

7. How much did John Wesley earn for the dead chickenhawk?
(a) Twenty-five cents.
(b) One dollar.
(c) Seventy-five cents.
(d) Fifty cents.

8. Where does Sylder dispose of the dead body?
(a) A lake.
(b) The woods.
(c) A mountain ravine.
(d) A riverbank.

9. What surprises Sylder when he gets to his car after leaving a bar?
(a) Obscenities are painted on his car.
(b) There is a man in his car.
(c) His windshield is smashed.
(d) All his tires are flat.

10. Sylder and John Wesley walk to the house of Sylder's friend, _____________.
(a) Jake.
(b) Jimmie.
(c) James.
(d) June.

11. What is the result of Sylder's crash?
(a) He drives away.
(b) His car is totalled.
(c) He is severely wounded.
(d) He is killed instantly.

12. Who is Kenneth Rattner's son?
(a) John William.
(b) John Warner.
(c) James Ashely.
(d) John Wesley.

13. Sylder has an irrational fear of what type of animal?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Ferrets.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

14. In what year was Marion Sylder born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1933.

15. What kind of job did Sylder have?
(a) University.
(b) Highway.
(c) Restaurant.
(d) Factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Sylder's car on the way to Maryville?

2. Sylder sees the orchard keeper shooting ________________ in the side of a government tank.

3. Why is Sylder driving so fast?

4. Why does Sylder vomit in the woods?

5. What does Sylder do after the man and his son leave?

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