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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose voice is the stranger's?
(a) Mason.
(b) An angry neighbor.
(c) The devil.
(d) Buford.

2. What does Tarwater compare Mason's dead eyes to?
(a) The eyes of a slave.
(b) The eyes of a devil.
(c) The eyes of a fish.
(d) The eyes of the stars.

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

4. 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.

5. Who buries Mason Tarwater?
(a) The schoolteacher.
(b) Buford Munson.
(c) Bernice Bishop.
(d) Francis Marion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Mason give for his finding a lover for Tarwater's mother?

2. What does Meeks think of Tarwater after driving for only a short while?

3. When does Meeks tell Tarwater to contact him?

4. When Rayber tells Tarwater that now he has a father, how does Tarwater respond?

5. What is the first thing Tarwater says to the schoolteacher?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the schoolteacher leave his hearing aid on at night?

2. What does Bishop look like the first time Tarwater sees him?

3. Why does Tarwater drink the moonshine he was getting for Buford?

4. How does Tarwater respond when the woman at the hotel tells him to not do the devil's work at the hotel?

5. What is Rayber's plan for Tarwater on the fishing trip?

6. What does the stranger's voice tell Tarwater about burying Mason?

7. During the fishing trip what does Rayber say he does and does not have the guts for?

8. At the end of the novel, what does Tarwater discover about Mason's body?

9. What becomes apparent to Tarwater after the death of Mason?

10. What happens when Tarwater drinks water from the pump near the Negro shack?

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