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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 the schoolteacher describe as "coming out of darkness into light"?
(a) Raising Bishop.
(b) Getting baptized.
(c) Tarwater riding with Meeks.
(d) Tarwater breaking free from Mason.

2. What type of boy does Mason say Tarwater is?
(a) The type that people will take advantage of.
(b) The type that won't understand until it's too late.
(c) The type that women will ignore.
(d) The type the devil is always going to try to assist.

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

4. Why does Tarwater say he went to the church?
(a) To be saved.
(b) To be healed.
(c) To laugh at it.
(d) To spit on it.

5. What window does Tarwater stop in front of to look in?
(a) The toystore.
(b) The petstore.
(c) The cleaners.
(d) The bakery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meeks think of Tarwater after driving for only a short while?

2. What does the schoolteacher first think when Tarwater shows up at his house?

3. Why does Rayber offer Tarwater his glass of water at the hotel restaurant?

4. What does Rayber think Tarwater is going to do to Bishop as they leave the restaurant?

5. What does Rayber buy for Tarwater at the gas station?

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