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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feature was Tarwater unable to recall about the schoolteacher's face?
(a) His nose.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His mouth.
(d) His jaw.

2. What does Tarwater do when he and Rayber return home from the church?
(a) He goes directly to bed.
(b) He refuses to come inside.
(c) He stands outside the door for a moment.
(d) He says he wants to eat.

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

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

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

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

7. Who does Tarwater smile like?
(a) Mason.
(b) Bishop.
(c) The schoolteacher.
(d) Meeks.

8. Who takes the form of the devil in chapter 2?
(a) Meeks.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) The schoolteacher.

9. What does Tarwater want to make clear to Rayber, the "schoolteacher", the morning he goes to his house?
(a) That he is not to be studied.
(b) That he wants Bishop to be like a brother.
(c) That he needs money.
(d) That he disagreed with Mason.

10. What does the schoolteacher describe as "coming out of darkness into light"?
(a) Tarwater riding with Meeks.
(b) Raising Bishop.
(c) Tarwater breaking free from Mason.
(d) Getting baptized.

11. What does Tarwater know as soon as he sees Bishop?
(a) That he has to baptize him.
(b) That he needs a bath.
(c) That he needs to kidnap him.
(d) That the schoolteacher has been beating him.

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

13. What does Tarwater do when Mason dies?
(a) Calls the police.
(b) Asks a neighbor for help.
(c) Finishes his breakfast.
(d) Goes into the woods.

14. What does Tarwater do with the books, clothing, and other items the schoolteacher bought for him?
(a) Tarwater says thank you.
(b) Tarwater sells them.
(c) Tarwater ignores them.
(d) Tarwater hides them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarwater say about burying Mason?

2. What does Rayber do as soon as he and Tarwater return home from the church?

3. What does Rayber forget to put on the night he follows Tarwater?

4. What is part of a "simple equation that required no further solution"?

5. How did Mason describe Tarwater's sister?

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