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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 in the house.
(d) Tarwater's place is the baptize children.

2. What part of Tarwater does Rayber see first in the beginning of chapter 5?
(a) His chin.
(b) His hat.
(c) His teeth.
(d) His shoes.

3. When Rayber is watching Lucette's parents, who does he keep envisioning?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) His father.
(c) The devil.
(d) Mason.

4. What does Tarwater confuse the city lights with?
(a) Fire.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Cars.
(d) Hell.

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

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

7. Where was Mason kept for four years?
(a) A college.
(b) The woods.
(c) An asylum.
(d) A church.

8. What does Lucette wear?
(a) A cape and a skirt.
(b) A long white dress.
(c) A man's jacket and tie.
(d) A black jacket.

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

10. What type of boy does Mason say Tarwater is?
(a) The type that people will take advantage of.
(b) The type that won't understand until it's too late.
(c) The type that women will ignore.
(d) The type the devil is always going to try to assist.

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

12. What does Rayber call the aptitude test?
(a) A game.
(b) Too hard for Tarwater.
(c) A measure of ability.
(d) Work.

13. Why does Rayber think Tarwater is headed into town the night he leaves the house?
(a) To see something that interested him.
(b) To go to church.
(c) To meet with friends.
(d) To have a drink.

14. Why does Rayber have a hard time walking around the town?
(a) Because of Bishop.
(b) Because Tarwater made him mad.
(c) Because it is raining.
(d) Because he limps.

15. Why did Lucette's mother travel to China and Africa?
(a) Because she took a year off from work.
(b) Because she was trying to adopt a child.
(c) Because she was rich.
(d) Because she was a missionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meeks do for a living?

2. Why would Mason leave for days at a time into the woods?

3. Why does Tarwater drop the knocker at the schoolteacher's house?

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

5. According to the voice, what's the only reason Mason wanted Tarwater?

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