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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rayber check in Tarwater's overalls?
(a) The snaps.
(b) The size.
(c) The pockets.
(d) The seams.

2. What does the voice say Tarwater's sign is?
(a) The water in the pool.
(b) The sun on Bishop's head.
(c) A mystery.
(d) Rayber saving him.

3. Who does Rayber say is "basically very bright"?
(a) Himself.
(b) Bernice.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Tarwater.

4. What does Tarwater do to the forked tree by the burned cabin?
(a) He climbs it.
(b) He chops it down.
(c) He burns it.
(d) He carves his name in it.

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

6. Who speaks to Tarwater when he looks at the burned cabin?
(a) The memory of Mason.
(b) The stranger's voice.
(c) Bishop's ghost.
(d) Rayber.

7. Who tries to say, "I have more than one problem"?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Tarwater.
(c) Mason.
(d) Rayber.

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

9. Where does Bishop run to when he jumps out of the car in Powderhead?
(a) The lake.
(b) Mason's cabin.
(c) The mule farm.
(d) The blackberry bushes.

10. What does Tarwater decide to do with the bottle opener from Rayber?
(a) Buy a drink and open it.
(b) Throw it down the hill.
(c) Sell it at the gas station.
(d) Give it to the Negro boy.

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

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

13. Why does Rayber feel he had ruined his plan in chapter 9?
(a) Because he ended the fishing trip too soon.
(b) Because he left Tarwater alone.
(c) Because he let Bishop see the burned cabin.
(d) Because he went to Powderhead too soon.

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

15. Why does Tarwater say he is different than Rayber?
(a) Tarwater says he thinks better.
(b) Tarwater says he is able to act.
(c) Tarwater says he loves.
(d) Tarwater says he is a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bishop jump off of Tarwater's bed at the end of chapter 8?

2. Why does Rayber think a fishing trip is a good idea?

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

4. What does Tarwater believe happened to Mason's "fancies" and "madness"?

5. Who said, "You don't even know what makes you do the things you do"?

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