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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Meeks think of Tarwater after driving for only a short while?
(a) That he has a good business idea.
(b) That he is related.
(c) That he is a runaway.
(d) That he is just trying to sell him something.

2. What about Tarwater makes fury rise in Rayber?
(a) The way he is independent.
(b) The way he follows him around the house.
(c) The way he eats.
(d) The way he does not care about the new clothes.

3. Who said, "A dead man is not going to do you any good"?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Mason.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) Rayber.

4. How does Tarwater prove to Meeks that the schoolteacher lives in town?
(a) He has him pull over to ask someone.
(b) He finds him in a phonebook.
(c) He doesn't convince him.
(d) He makes him drive to his house.

5. When does Meeks tell Tarwater to contact him?
(a) If he can't stay with his uncle.
(b) In a month.
(c) In two days.
(d) If he gets hungry by next week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rayber define as the great dignity of man?

2. Why does Rayber have a hard time walking around the town?

3. Who takes the form of the devil in chapter 2?

4. What does Rayber hear when he turns on his hearing aid the night Tarwater takes Bishop on the boat?

5. Where does Bishop run to when he jumps out of the car in Powderhead?

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