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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. What window does Tarwater stop in front of to look in?
(a) The bakery.
(b) The toystore.
(c) The cleaners.
(d) The petstore.

2. Why does Rayber have a hard time walking around the town?
(a) Because it is raining.
(b) Because Tarwater made him mad.
(c) Because of Bishop.
(d) Because he limps.

3. What about Tarwater makes fury rise in Rayber?
(a) The way he follows him around the house.
(b) The way he eats.
(c) The way he is independent.
(d) The way he does not care about the new clothes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meeks say he graduated with?

2. How did Mason describe Tarwater's sister?

3. What does Meeks do every time Tarwater mentions Mason?

4. What does Mason tell Tarwater a benefit of living in the woods is?

5. Where does Bishop go to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it obvious that Tarwater is unfamiliar with telephones?

2. What two histories does Tarwater say he knows "completely"?

3. What does Rayber say Mason did to Tarwater?

4. How does Rayber describe the windows of the building Lucette preaches in?

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

6. How does Meeks say man can get ahead?

7. Why does Tarwater eat so much at lunch before fishing?

8. Why is Tarwater concerned for his own soul while burying Mason?

9. What things does Mason teach Tarwater?

10. How does Tarwater respond when the truck driver says he better not be sick?

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