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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 does Tarwater want to make clear to Rayber, the "schoolteacher", the morning he goes to his house?
(a) That he is not to be studied.
(b) That he needs money.
(c) That he wants Bishop to be like a brother.
(d) That he disagreed with Mason.

2. Whose head was Mason "tied hand and foot inside"?
(a) The schoolteacher's.
(b) Bishop's.
(c) Meek's.
(d) Tarwater's.

3. When Rayber is watching Lucette's parents, who does he keep envisioning?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) Mason.
(c) The devil.
(d) His father.

4. What does Tarwater do with the books, clothing, and other items the schoolteacher bought for him?
(a) Tarwater says thank you.
(b) Tarwater ignores them.
(c) Tarwater sells them.
(d) Tarwater hides them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meeks say he graduated with?

2. What does the schoolteacher first think when Tarwater shows up at his house?

3. What does Rayber do as soon as he and Tarwater return home from the church?

4. Who says they won't get used to Tarwater?

5. Where was Mason kept for four years?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Buford come to Mason's shack in the beginning of chapter 1?

2. Why does Rayber feel he can read Tarwater like a book?

3. What things does Mason teach Tarwater?

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

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

6. When Meeks asks what line of work Tarwater will get into, what does he say?

7. What does the schoolteacher do when he first hears that Mason is dead?

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

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

10. What does Rayber say Mason did to Tarwater?

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