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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rayber realize about Tarwater as he looks into the pool of water?
(a) That he cannot understand him.
(b) That he cannot reason with him.
(c) That he cannot save him.
(d) That he cannot keep him in his house.

2. Where does Rayber decide to take Tarwater and Bishop the night after Tarwater left the house?
(a) A French restaurant.
(b) The Natural History Museum.
(c) The bank.
(d) The zoo.

3. Who shoots the schoolteacher?
(a) Buford.
(b) Tarwater.
(c) Mason.
(d) Bernice.

4. Who did Mason convince to get a job in his sister's house?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) Bernice.
(c) Luella Munson.
(d) The schoolteacher.

5. What reason does Mason give for his finding a lover for Tarwater's mother?
(a) To raise her self-confidence.
(b) To get her a child.
(c) To earn money.
(d) To get her to move away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mason kept for four years?

2. What premonition does Rayber have when he fills out the card at the hotel?

3. Who does the schoolteacher marry?

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

5. Who tries to say, "I have more than one problem"?

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