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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rayber decide to take Tarwater and Bishop the night after Tarwater left the house?
(a) The zoo.
(b) A French restaurant.
(c) The Natural History Museum.
(d) The bank.

2. Why does Bishop sit on the stairs in front of Tarwater?
(a) He wants to kick Tarwater.
(b) He wants attention.
(c) He wants his shoes tied.
(d) He wants to be in the way.

3. What happens when Tarwater takes Bishop on the boat?
(a) He baptizes and drowns him.
(b) He and Bishop get lost.
(c) He baptizes him.
(d) He drowns him.

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

5. What does the city park remind Rayber of?
(a) Trash.
(b) Powderhead.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Peace.

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

7. What does Tarwater eat for lunch before fishing?
(a) Barbeque buns and beer.
(b) Hot dogs and whiskey.
(c) Cheese and wine.
(d) Nothing.

8. What does Tarwater believe happened to Mason's "fancies" and "madness"?
(a) That he will serve it forever.
(b) That it has taken over him.
(c) That it has been burned out of him.
(d) That it is part of the land.

9. Where did Rayber's wife, Bernice, go when she left him?
(a) China.
(b) Japan.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Indiana.

10. What does Tarwater's long face remind Rayber of?
(a) A knife blade.
(b) A root pulled from the ground.
(c) A sharpened pencil.
(d) A foot without a shoe.

11. What does Rayber define as the great dignity of man?
(a) Resisting the pressure.
(b) Being born twice.
(c) Seeing the light.
(d) Being born once.

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

13. What does Rayber say about Bishop during the fishing trip?
(a) "That kind of child struggles."
(b) "Nothing ever happens to that kind of child."
(c) "He needs all the help he can get."
(d) "In a hundred years I wouldn't know him."

14. What does the water fountain look like at the park?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A lion's head.
(c) A small child.
(d) A group of mice.

15. What does Tarwater say the only reason for him to leave Powderhead is?
(a) To baptize the people of the city.
(b) To free himself from the woods.
(c) To prove he isn't a prophet.
(d) To visit Rayber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bishop run to when he jumps out of the car in Powderhead?

2. What does Tarwater ask to buy at the gas station?

3. What does Rayber buy for Tarwater at the gas station?

4. What does Rayber check in Tarwater's overalls?

5. What happens when Tarwater tries to eat while walking?

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