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

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

3. Who spent time in an insane asylum?
(a) Mason.
(b) Tarwater.
(c) Bishop.
(d) The schoolteacher.

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

5. How does Mason describe the end of the world?
(a) Jesus holding people's hands.
(b) The world is on fire.
(c) Prophets ascend to heaven last.
(d) The world floods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the schoolteacher first think when Tarwater shows up at his house?

2. Who steals Tarwater from his crib?

3. What does Tarwater do when Bishop tries to touch him?

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

5. What does Tarwater do when Mason dies?

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