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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Tarwater hitch a ride into town with?
(a) Meeks.
(b) Bernice.
(c) Buford.
(d) A newspaper salesman.

4. What does Mason tell Tarwater a benefit of living in the woods is?
(a) Tarwater gets to learn outdoorsman skills.
(b) Tarwater doesn't have to go to school.
(c) Tarwater doesn't have to buy food.
(d) Tarwater gets his own chicken.

5. What does Rayber forget to put on the night he follows Tarwater?
(a) His hat.
(b) His coat.
(c) His pants.
(d) His shoes.

6. Why does Tarwater say he went to the church?
(a) To laugh at it.
(b) To be saved.
(c) To be healed.
(d) To spit on it.

7. Whose voice is the stranger's?
(a) An angry neighbor.
(b) Buford.
(c) The devil.
(d) Mason.

8. When Rayber tells Tarwater that now he has a father, how does Tarwater respond?
(a) Tarwater says he already has a father.
(b) Tarwater ignores Rayber.
(c) Tarwater says he is glad.
(d) Tarwater says he didn't ask for a father.

9. Who is Tarwater's uncle?
(a) Francis.
(b) The schoolteacher.
(c) Joel.
(d) Mason.

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

11. Who will inherit Mason's land?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) Bishop.
(c) No one.
(d) The schoolteacher.

12. Why does the schoolteacher use the help of a welfare office worker?
(a) To find a new job.
(b) To get unemployment.
(c) To get Tarwater back.
(d) To get child support.

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

14. What does Meeks do for a living?
(a) Phonebook salesman.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Copper flue salesman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Tarwater do when Mason dies?

3. Who did Mason convince to get a job in his sister's house?

4. What does Mason say will burn a prophet?

5. What does Lucette say is coming?

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