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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Tarwater scratch off of the card Rayber fills out at the hotel?
(a) Rayber.
(b) George.
(c) Frank.
(d) Bishop.

2. What does Bishop do when he sees the fountain at the park?
(a) He throws money into it.
(b) He starts to yell.
(c) He runs away afraid.
(d) He jumps in.

3. What does Rayber hear when he turns on his hearing aid the night Tarwater takes Bishop on the boat?
(a) Tarwater's laugh.
(b) Nothing but crickets.
(c) Nothing, the hearing aid was broken.
(d) Bishop's bellow.

4. What does Tarwater keep telling himself while walking?
(a) That he is right, everyone else is wrong.
(b) That he isn't hungry.
(c) That he will be alone forever.
(d) That he will soon be home.

5. How does Tarwater describe Bishop's drowning?
(a) As being more important than the baptism.
(b) As being a mistake.
(c) As being his job.
(d) As being less important than the baptism.

6. Why does Rayber say they can no longer go to the museum?
(a) Because it is too late.
(b) Because they don't have enough money.
(c) Because of the need to change Bishop's shoes.
(d) Because Tarwater left.

7. How does Tarwater describe Rayber's hearing aid?
(a) He says Rayber is a robot.
(b) He says Rayber is incomplete.
(c) He says Rayber relies on it too much.
(d) He says Rayber can read minds.

8. Why does Bishop jump off of Tarwater's bed at the end of chapter 8?
(a) Tarwater tries to hit him.
(b) He actually falls off the bed.
(c) He says he wants ice cream.
(d) Rayber asks him to go for a ride.

9. Why does Rayber know that Tarwater will always return to him?
(a) Because of Bishop.
(b) Because they are related.
(c) Because Tarwater has no place to go.
(d) Because Tarwater wants help.

10. What does Tarwater realize he is holding during his ride to Powderhead?
(a) Bishop's hat.
(b) The driver's sandwich.
(c) The driver's hand.
(d) A stack of money.

11. What does the stranger's voice tell Tarwater will happen if he performs a baptism?
(a) He will see the light.
(b) He will have to keep performing them.
(c) He may do it wrong.
(d) People may treat him like a prophet.

12. Who thinks to himself, "I must have infinite patience"?
(a) Mason.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) Rayber.

13. What does Tarwater think his destiny is forcing him on to?
(a) A final revelation.
(b) More fires.
(c) Prophesying.
(d) A second baptism.

14. What does Tarwater do at the end of the trip out into the lake?
(a) He catches more fish than Rayber.
(b) He jumps off the boat and swims away.
(c) He tries to burn the boat.
(d) He eats a live fish.

15. When Tarwater and Bishop are gone, what does Rayber realize about his relationship with Tarwater?
(a) Rayber realizes he just wants to be rid of Tarwater.
(b) Rayber realizes he can adopt Tarwater.
(c) Rayber realizes how to make friends with Tarwater.
(d) Rayber realizes how to rehabilitate Tarwater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tarwater say is "better than the Bread of Life"?

2. What does the man who picks Tarwater up say he needs in exchange for the ride?

3. Why does Rayber let Tarwater take Bishop out on the boat?

4. When Rayber realizes he owns Mason's land, what does he think?

5. What does Tarwater do with the hand Bishop tried to touch in the hotel lobby?

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