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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 Tarwater compare Mason's dead eyes to?
(a) The eyes of the stars.
(b) The eyes of a fish.
(c) The eyes of a devil.
(d) The eyes of a slave.

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

3. What does Mason want at the head of his grave?
(a) A stone.
(b) Nothing.
(c) An angel.
(d) A cross.

4. What does Tarwater do with Buford's jug?
(a) Breaks it.
(b) Fills it with alcohol.
(c) Hides it.
(d) Dumps it out.

5. What does Mason tell Tarwater a benefit of living in the woods is?
(a) Tarwater doesn't have to buy food.
(b) Tarwater gets his own chicken.
(c) Tarwater gets to learn outdoorsman skills.
(d) Tarwater doesn't have to go to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the schoolteacher describe as "coming out of darkness into light"?

2. What was the one time Mason decided to stop prophesying?

3. Who shoots the schoolteacher?

4. What small town does this story begin in?

5. Whose voice is the stranger's?

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