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

2. How were men killed at the Green Fly Inn?
(a) They were poisoned.
(b) There was a drive-by shooting.
(c) The porch collapsed.
(d) There was a knife fight.

3. What does the orchard keeper do with a knife?
(a) Peels an apple.
(b) Stabs an intruder.
(c) Whittles a pipe.
(d) Circumcises the shotgun shells.

4. Why does Sylder vomit in the woods?
(a) The odor of the decaying body.
(b) He ate bad seafood for dinner.
(c) He feels guilt for killing the man.
(d) He has the flu.

5. Why had Sylder once blasted his wall with a shotgun?
(a) He thought a cat was sneaking up on him.
(b) He thought he saw a robber.
(c) He was tired of watching the TV and shot it.
(d) His gun went off accidentally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car did Sylder crash?

2. What does Sylder do after he kills the man?

3. With what did Sylder cover up the corpse?

4. Who picks up the whiskey on the orchard keeper's property and takes it the rest of the way on its journey?

5. What is one of the major inconveniences of the Rattner house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John Wesley happen to meet Sylder?

2. What is the whiskey running process in place in the area and what is Sylder's role in it?

3. What does Kenneth say he is looking for and why does this confuse the storekeep?

4. What insight is revealed about Sylder's background?

5. Where does Kenneth get a ride to and what is his ultimate destination?

6. How does McCarthy set up the book's major irony in this chapter?

7. What does the man in Sylder's car want and what does Sylder end up doing?

8. How does Sylder end up killing the man?

9. What spooks the orchard keeper when he visits the peach pit where the corpse is buried?

10. Who are Gifford and Legwater and what do they find at the scene of the car crash?

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