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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarwater do when Bishop tries to touch him?
(a) Tarwater takes a step back.
(b) Tarwater reaches out his own hand.
(c) Tarwater smacks Bishops hand.
(d) Tarwater runs away.

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

3. How did Mason describe Tarwater's sister?
(a) He called her beautiful.
(b) He called her a lost cause.
(c) He called her a dirty name.
(d) He called her his favorite.

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

5. When does Meeks tell Tarwater to contact him?
(a) If he gets hungry by next week.
(b) In two days.
(c) In a month.
(d) If he can't stay with his uncle.

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

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

8. 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.

9. When does Tarwater hear the stranger's voice?
(a) When he is sitting on the porch.
(b) When he is burning leaves.
(c) When he is raking the grass.
(d) When he is digging a grave.

10. What does Mason Tarwater do for a living?
(a) Preacher.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shines shoes.
(d) Sells moonshine.

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

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

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

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

15. How old was Lucette when she began preaching?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Eleven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mason describe the end of the world?

2. What does the schoolteacher first think when Tarwater shows up at his house?

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

4. What was the one time Mason decided to stop prophesying?

5. What does Tarwater compare Mason's dead eyes to?

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