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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rayber forget to put on the night he follows Tarwater?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His coat.
(c) His hat.
(d) His pants.

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

3. What does Mason tell Tarwater about his place?
(a) Tarwater's place is to think and do God's will.
(b) Tarwater's place is not to think, but to act on the Lord's calling.
(c) Tarwater's place is the baptize children.
(d) Tarwater's place is in the house.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarwater think about Mason's property after Mason's death?

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

3. Who spent time in an insane asylum?

4. What about Tarwater makes fury rise in Rayber?

5. Whose head was Mason "tied hand and foot inside"?

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