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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Tarwater hitch a ride into town with?
(a) Meeks.
(b) Buford.
(c) Bernice.
(d) A newspaper salesman.

3. Where do Rayber, Bishop and Tarwater stay during their fishing trip?
(a) The Cherokee Lodge.
(b) The Big Inn.
(c) The Summer Lodge.
(d) The Dakota Hotel.

4. What does Tarwater compare Bishop to when they go to the Italian restaurant?
(a) A hog.
(b) A thief.
(c) A rat.
(d) A baby.

5. Who did Mason convince to get a job in his sister's house?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) The schoolteacher.
(c) Luella Munson.
(d) Bernice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucette say is coming?

2. Where does Bishop go to school?

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

4. What does Tarwater want to make clear to Rayber, the "schoolteacher", the morning he goes to his house?

5. Why would Mason leave for days at a time into the woods?

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