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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mason say will burn a prophet?
(a) Sunlight.
(b) People.
(c) Water.
(d) Evil.

3. What does Tarwater want to make clear to Rayber, the "schoolteacher", the morning he goes to his house?
(a) That he disagreed with Mason.
(b) That he is not to be studied.
(c) That he needs money.
(d) That he wants Bishop to be like a brother.

4. Whose voice is the stranger's?
(a) An angry neighbor.
(b) Mason.
(c) Buford.
(d) The devil.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Tarwater hear the stranger's voice?

3. Whose head was Mason "tied hand and foot inside"?

4. What does Meeks say he graduated with?

5. What does Tarwater do when Mason dies?

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