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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Ballard ask the group of men for all of his watches?
(a) Eighteen dollars
(b) Fifteen Dollars
(c) Twelve dollars
(d) Nine dollars

2. What does Ballard leave on his mattress?
(a) His cookware
(b) His stuffed animals
(c) His rifle
(d) Ralph's daughter's body

3. What does Ballard initially forget when he leaves the car?
(a) His rifle
(b) His jacket
(c) His squirrels
(d) His money

4. Where does Ballard go the morning after his shack burns?
(a) Down the highway, hitchiking
(b) Up the mountain
(c) Into the town
(d) To his old property

5. Which of Ballard's friends has recently been picked up by the police?
(a) Waldrop
(b) Kirby
(c) Ralph
(d) The Dumpkeeper

6. How many daughters are still living with the Dumpkeeper?
(a) None
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) One

7. About what do the Sheriff and the Deputy question Ballard?
(a) His skulking around Greer's place
(b) The dead couple in the car
(c) Ralph's housefire
(d) His shack burning down

8. When, according to Fate, is the last time the whole town flooded?
(a) 1910
(b) 1885
(c) 1960
(d) 1943

9. What animal is living in a car outside the Dumpkeeper's house?
(a) A turkey
(b) A racoon
(c) A fox
(d) A tabby cat

10. What does Ballard leave in Ralph's house when he burns it down?
(a) His wallet
(b) His rifle
(c) The daughter's body
(d) The disfigured child

11. How much money does Ballard eventually get for all of his watches?
(a) Twenty-one dollars
(b) Eight dollars
(c) Seventeen dollars
(d) Fourteen dollars

12. How does the Sheriff travel around the town in Chapter 45 (pp. 160-168)?
(a) By helicopter
(b) On foot
(c) A police cruiser
(d) A rowboat

13. What does Lester intimate to Ralph's daughter?
(a) That she wants him
(b) That she is a prostitute
(c) That her father touches her
(d) That the disfigured child is hers

14. Who does Ballard run into while in town?
(a) C.B.
(b) Greer
(c) The Sheriff
(d) The Sleeping Woman

15. What animals mill about the stream that passes through Ballard's cave?
(a) Bats
(b) Goby fish
(c) Crawfish
(d) Moles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy do to precipitate Ballard's shooting him?

2. What is the only thing different about the car when Ballard returns to later in the day?

3. What flourishes are on the panties that Ballard buys?

4. How many bodies are in the car the Sheriff inspects?

5. What is Ballard approaching a the beginning of Chapter 43 (pp. 149-153)?

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