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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 is the orchard keeper's name?
(a) Uncle Amos.
(b) Uncle Tom.
(c) Uncle Ather.
(d) Uncle Remus.

2. Why does Gifford want to see Sylder?
(a) To beat him up for socking him on the jaw.
(b) To get a confession out of him.
(c) To read him his rights.
(d) To release him.

3. What has happened to the corpse in the peach pit?
(a) It is partially decayed.
(b) It has been reduced to ashes.
(c) It is gone.
(d) It is still intact.

4. Where is Ownby heading when he leaves his house from the back door?
(a) Knoxville.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Harrykin.

5. Ownby states that the older he gets, _____________________.
(a) the worse his eyesight gets.
(b) the worse his hearing gets.
(c) the more memory he loses.
(d) the fewer things there are that he wants to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does Gifford return to the store to question Huffaker about Ownby?

2. Which policeman has threatened John Wesley?

3. Ownby tells John Wesley that there are some things that a person just has to do, because unless he does them he will have no _____________.

4. How could the charges against John Wesley be dropped?

5. What does John Wesley find in his trap the next day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gifford put pressure on John Wesley to give up information about Sylder?

2. What emotions does the orchard keeper have when he finds the peach pit smoldering?

3. Why does Gifford focus his question about Ownby on a storekeep named Huffaker?

4. How is Sylder finally apprehended for bootlegging?

5. Describe the police attack on Ownby's house.

6. Describe the conversation in which Ownby gives John Wesley advice about his life.

7. Describe Ownby's encounter with a welfare department agent in the jail.

8. What is the significance of cats in the story?

9. What does the orchard keeper do on a snowy morning involving the peach pit?

10. Why does McCarthy wait until this point in the story to reveal the orchard keeper's formal name?

(see the answer keys)

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