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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 was Sylder afraid of seeing outside his window at night?
(a) A cat.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) A stranger.
2. What is the name of the town where Marion Sylder was born?
(a) Red Branch.
(b) Red Fern.
(c) Red Bank.
(d) Red Vine.
3. Where does the orchard keeper go late at night?
(a) The pit with Kenneth Rattner's body.
(b) Green Valley Inn.
(c) The Blue Fly Inn.
(d) Knoxville.
4. What does Sylder do with the dead body when he hears a truck coming?
(a) Puts it in the trunk.
(b) Sets it in the passenger seat.
(c) Rolls it into a ravine.
(d) Puts it under the car.
5. Why had Sylder once blasted his wall with a shotgun?
(a) He thought a cat was sneaking up on him.
(b) His gun went off accidentally.
(c) He thought he saw a robber.
(d) He was tired of watching the TV and shot it.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Kenneth Rattner doing as the novel begins?
2. In what year was Marion Sylder born?
3. Where is Kenneth when he enters a bar?
4. What type of fruit is the old man eating?
5. What does Sylder do after the man and his son leave?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Kenneth get a ride to and what is his ultimate destination?
2. What spooks the orchard keeper when he visits the peach pit where the corpse is buried?
3. What is life like now for Kenneth Rattner's widow and son, John Wesley, since Rattner is dead?
4. How does John Wesley happen to meet Sylder?
5. How does McCarthy set up the book's major irony in this chapter?
6. Why is the old man afraid of cats and what extreme measures has he taken to keep them at bay?
7. What do the voices in the woods tell John Wesley to do?
8. What does Mrs. Rattner tell John Wesley about his father?
9. What is the symbolism of the old man firing on the government tank on his property?
10. What is the whiskey running process in place in the area and what is Sylder's role in it?
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