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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. When does Tarwater hear the stranger's voice?
(a) When he is raking the grass.
(b) When he is burning leaves.
(c) When he is digging a grave.
(d) When he is sitting on the porch.

2. What does Tarwater confuse the city lights with?
(a) Fire.
(b) Cars.
(c) Aliens.
(d) Hell.

3. How does Tarwater prove to Meeks that the schoolteacher lives in town?
(a) He doesn't convince him.
(b) He makes him drive to his house.
(c) He finds him in a phonebook.
(d) He has him pull over to ask someone.

4. According to the voice, what's the only reason Mason wanted Tarwater?
(a) So someone would keep him company.
(b) So someone would have to pay his taxes.
(c) So someone would give him a Christian burial.
(d) So someone would take over the business.

5. Who says they are "just now waking up"?
(a) Mason.
(b) Tarwater.
(c) Buford.
(d) Meeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meeks do for a living?

2. Who said that their parents did not teach them anything, except "not to wet the bed"?

3. Who shoots the schoolteacher?

4. Where was Mason kept for four years?

5. Where does Mason die?

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