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

2. Whose head was Mason "tied hand and foot inside"?
(a) Bishop's.
(b) The schoolteacher's.
(c) Meek's.
(d) Tarwater's.

3. Who buries Mason Tarwater?
(a) Francis Marion.
(b) Bernice Bishop.
(c) The schoolteacher.
(d) Buford Munson.

4. What does the banner say on the building Rayber thinks Tarwater went into late at night?
(a) "The time has come."
(b) "Unless ye be born again."
(c) "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
(d) "Pray ye, for all."

5. What feature was Tarwater unable to recall about the schoolteacher's face?
(a) His nose.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His jaw.
(d) His mouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarwater compare Mason's dead eyes to?

2. Where does Bishop go to school?

3. How did Mason describe Tarwater's sister?

4. When Rayber tells Tarwater that now he has a father, how does Tarwater respond?

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

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