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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 Mason Tarwater do for a living?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Shines shoes.
(c) Preacher.
(d) Sells moonshine.

2. What does the schoolteacher first think when Tarwater shows up at his house?
(a) That he has won.
(b) That it is a trick.
(c) That he is selling something.
(d) That he is in trouble.

3. Who has a gash in their ear?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) Meeks.
(c) Bishop.
(d) The schoolteacher.

4. What does Tarwater know as soon as he sees Bishop?
(a) That he needs a bath.
(b) That he needs to kidnap him.
(c) That he has to baptize him.
(d) That the schoolteacher has been beating him.

5. What does Meeks do for a living?
(a) Copper flue salesman.
(b) Phonebook salesman.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tarwater drop the knocker at the schoolteacher's house?

2. What does Tarwater do with Buford's jug?

3. According to the voice, what's the only reason Mason wanted Tarwater?

4. Why does the schoolteacher use the help of a welfare office worker?

5. How did Mason describe the schoolteacher's house?

(see the answer key)

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