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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people claim was the reason for Haze opening his brother's casket at his funeral?
(a) He was heartbroken over his brother's death
(b) He had a morbid fascination with dead people
(c) He was trying to climb into the coffin to be with his brother
(d) He wanted to make sure his brother was really dead

2. Who does Mrs. Hitchcock tell Hazel Motes she going to visit?
(a) Her cousin
(b) Her unmarried daughter
(c) Her married daughter
(d) Her sister

3. What is different about Haze's 'new Jesus'?
(a) He is evil rather than good
(b) A person does not need to believe in him to be saved
(c) He is a man without any divine ties
(d) He has come to save all of the people on Earth

4. Where does Hazel finally meet up with the blind preacher?
(a) At a local church
(b) At Mrs. Watts' house
(c) On the street near the street vendor
(d) Outside of the library

5. Which of the following adjectives best describes Enoch Emery?
(a) Patient
(b) Silent
(c) Relentless
(d) Vicious

6. What is the secret that Enoch shares with Haze?
(a) The Hawks' address
(b) A weapon in the museum
(c) A shrunken man in a coffin
(d) His confession that he once killed a man

7. What does Enoch do when he first sees Haze at the park?
(a) He walks up to his car to greet him
(b) He asks him to join him on a walk through the park
(c) He sits behind him observing him
(d) He stays in the bushes by the pool

8. How much money does Haze have saved to buy a car?
(a) He has no money.
(b) $20
(c) $40
(d) $50

9. What is unusual about Mrs. Watts' house?
(a) She leaves the light in her bedroom on all of the time
(b) She does not live with her husband
(c) It looks like a shack
(d) She leaves the door unlocked

10. What does the letter Haze writes to Hawks' daughter say?
(a) He thinks she is the most homely looking girl he has ever seen
(b) He wants to seduce her to upset her father
(c) He thinks she is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen
(d) He wants to marry her

11. Why does Haze stop suddenly in the middle of the road?
(a) He decides not to buy the car because the horn doesn't work
(b) He wants to ask for directions to the zoo
(c) He sees a man hitch hiking
(d) He sees a boulder with a religious commentary on it

12. Why does Haze go to two different garages to have his car fixed?
(a) Haze refuses to pay the first mechanic
(b) The mechanic at the first garage tells him his car cannot be repaired
(c) The mechanic at the first garage fails to fix Haze's car
(d) The mechanic at the first garage refuses to look at Haze's car

13. How does Haze react when Enoch is unable to give him the address?
(a) He leaves him in the woods alone
(b) He drives him back to his apartment and leaves him
(c) He yells at him and leaves abruptly
(d) He hits him on the head with a rock

14. To what does Hazel liken his sleeping berth on the train?
(a) A bed
(b) A grave
(c) A coffin
(d) A cave

15. Where does Haze rent a room?
(a) In the same house as Enoch
(b) He decides to stay in his car instead of paying to rent a room
(c) In Mrs. Watts' home
(d) In the same house as the preacher and his daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Haze and Sabbath Lily go after parking the car on a dirt road?

2. Why did Enoch decide to work at the city park?

3. Who had Hazel dreamed of being like when he was a child?

4. Where is Haze headed when he leaves Mrs. Watts' home at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. What town was Hazel Motes born and raised in?

(see the answer keys)

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