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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 small town does this story begin in?
(a) Powderhead.
(b) Tarwater.
(c) Backwoods.
(d) Clamhead.

2. What window does Tarwater stop in front of to look in?
(a) The bakery.
(b) The toystore.
(c) The petstore.
(d) The cleaners.

3. Who thought that everything was a "false alarm"?
(a) Lucette.
(b) Mason.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) Rayber.

4. After four days with Tarwater, how does the schoolteacher feel?
(a) He feels excited.
(b) He feels unsure.
(c) He feels determined.
(d) He feels exhausted.

5. Who does the schoolteacher marry?
(a) Bernice.
(b) A schoolteacher.
(c) A bishop.
(d) Sally.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voice is the stranger's?

2. Where was Mason kept for four years?

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

4. Who says they are "just now waking up"?

5. As Meeks drives with Tarwater, what does he consider doing with Tarwater?

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