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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 digging a grave.
(b) When he is sitting on the porch.
(c) When he is burning leaves.
(d) When he is raking the grass.

2. As Meeks drives with Tarwater, what does he consider doing with Tarwater?
(a) Meeks considers letting Tarwater stay with his family.
(b) Meeks considers taking Tarwater to an institution.
(c) Meeks considers dropping Tarwater off on the side of the road.
(d) Meeks considers using Tarwater in his business.

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

4. Who steals Tarwater from his crib?
(a) The schoolteacher.
(b) Francis.
(c) Mason.
(d) Buford.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meeks think of Tarwater after driving for only a short while?

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

3. What does Mason Tarwater do for a living?

4. What does Mason tell Tarwater about his place?

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

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