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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10, 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Tarwater see at the gas station?
(a) A woman Mason liked to talk to.
(b) The devil.
(c) Someone who looks like Rayber.
(d) Rayber.

2. What was the one time Mason decided to stop prophesying?
(a) When he was an old man.
(b) When he was at the schoolteacher's house.
(c) When he turned thirty.
(d) When he was in the asylum.

3. Who said, "You don't even know what makes you do the things you do"?
(a) The receptionist at the hotel.
(b) The waitress at the hotel.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) Rayber.

4. What does Rayber say his "violent self" makes him see Tarwater as?
(a) A target.
(b) A waste.
(c) An enemy.
(d) A fool.

5. Where does Bishop run to when he jumps out of the car in Powderhead?
(a) The blackberry bushes.
(b) The mule farm.
(c) Mason's cabin.
(d) The lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stranger's voice tell Tarwater will happen if he performs a baptism?

2. Who steals Tarwater from his crib?

3. What does Tarwater know as soon as he sees Bishop?

4. Who shoots the schoolteacher?

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

(see the answer key)

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