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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sylder and June do when they find the two girls and a boy?
(a) Give them bus fare to get home.
(b) Rape them and leave them in a remote area.
(c) Shoot them in the woods.
(d) Give them a ride to Knoxville.

2. What kind of animal does John Wesley scare away while hunting?
(a) Rabbbit.
(b) Fox.
(c) Raccoon.
(d) Deer.

3. What does Sylder do every Saturday?
(a) Takes his wife out to dinner.
(b) Goes to the feed store.
(c) Does his banking.
(d) Drives the highway looking for hitchhikers.

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

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

6. What is Sylder doing as he drives away from the crash?
(a) Combs his hair.
(b) Chews gum.
(c) Eats an apple.
(d) Smokes a cigarette.

7. Where did Garland Hobie hid whiskey as a boolegger?
(a) Honeysuckle bushes.
(b) Cellar.
(c) Room behind false door.
(d) A mountain cave.

8. What does Sylder offer to give John Wesley?
(a) A gun.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A job.

9. How is the girl injured while watching John Wesley fish?
(a) A leech bites her.
(b) She falls out of a tree.
(c) She steps on a fish hook.
(d) A jellyfish stings her.

10. What came about as a result of Prohibition?
(a) World War II.
(b) Illegal drug use.
(c) Bootlegging.
(d) Marijuana farms.

11. What does the orchard keeper do after he discharges his shotgun shells?
(a) Discards the spent shells.
(b) All of these.
(c) Opens the shotgun.
(d) Examines the shells.

12. What does Kenneth do at the gas station?
(a) Gets directions.
(b) Fills his car with gas.
(c) Changes a tire.
(d) Wanders the aisles.

13. What happens to Sylder's car on the way to Maryville?
(a) The tailpipe falls off.
(b) A tire goes flat.
(c) The wipers won't work.
(d) It runs out of gas.

14. What type of fruit is the old man eating?
(a) Cherries.
(b) Pears.
(c) Apples.
(d) Peach.

15. What does Sylder crash into when he careens off the road?
(a) A gas station.
(b) A huge tree.
(c) A storefront.
(d) A house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sylder at the beginning of this section?

2. Sylder has an irrational fear of what type of animal?

3. About what do Sylder and June question Jack the Runner?

4. What does the old man pass by on his way home from the orchard?

5. What item does Kenneth claim to need when asked by the storekeep?

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