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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. Where was Mason kept for four years?
(a) A college.
(b) A church.
(c) The woods.
(d) An asylum.

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

3. Who said, "A dead man is not going to do you any good"?
(a) Mason.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Rayber.
(d) Tarwater.

4. What part of Tarwater does Rayber see first in the beginning of chapter 5?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His teeth.
(c) His hat.
(d) His chin.

5. Who shoots the schoolteacher?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) Buford.
(c) Mason.
(d) Bernice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What about Tarwater makes fury rise in Rayber?

3. What does the schoolteacher describe as "coming out of darkness into light"?

4. Who does Tarwater hitch a ride into town with?

5. Why would Mason leave for days at a time into the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Tarwater looks at the burned remains of the cabin, what does he think?

2. Why does Rayber decide to go to Powderhead with Bishop?

3. What does the driver of the car do when he realizes Tarwater is passed out?

4. What does Meeks say about the law of work and the law of love?

5. When Mason tells Tarwater about his kidnapping, what does he say about the schoolteacher?

6. What does Tarwater do when he has a hard time thinking of what to say to the woman at the gas station?

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

8. Why does Tarwater turn down Meeks' offer to drop him off at Rayber's?

9. In chapter 9 when Rayber watches Tarwater interact with Bishop in the bedroom why does Rayber admit to being jealous?

10. When Tarwater is digging the grave for Mason, what does he think of Rayber?

(see the answer keys)

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