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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Ralph when Ballard shows up at his house?
(a) At the store
(b) Fishing
(c) In Illinois
(d) At church

2. What is the name of the owner of the grocer's?
(a) Mills
(b) Crawford
(c) Fox
(d) Hyde

3. What sound does Ballard hear in the distance as he walks through the woods in Chapter 39 (pp. 136-137)?
(a) A scream
(b) A siren
(c) Dogs barking
(d) An axe chopping

4. What does Ballard have hanging from his belt at the beginning of this section?
(a) Dead squirrels
(b) A scalp
(c) A knife
(d) A woman's dress

5. What strikes Ballard as he crosses the rushing creek?
(a) A dead boar
(b) A log
(c) A piece of a tractor
(d) A rock

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

7. How much money does Ballard owe the grocer?
(a) 14.55
(b) 34.19
(c) 58.17
(d) 22.90

8. Which of the following is not among the items that Ballard purchases at the grocer's?
(a) Vienna sausages
(b) Loaves of bread
(c) Chewing tobacco
(d) Can's of beans

9. To what does the narrator compare the bodies that Ballard has arranged deep in his cave?
(a) Speed bumps
(b) Sleeping campers
(c) Dead saints
(d) Egyptian sarcophagi

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

11. How are the two dead people in the car positioned when Ballard discovers them?
(a) The man lies on top of the woman
(b) They lie in a spooning position in the back
(c) The woman is straddling the man
(d) The are seated next to each other in the front seats

12. According to the grocer, how long will it take Ballard to pay off his debt at the present rate?
(a) 94 years
(b) 131 years
(c) 178 years
(d) 105 years

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ballard toss his rifle when the Sheriff stops him on the road?

2. Who does Ballard run into while in town?

3. What color dress does Ballard buy?

4. What does Ballard Leave outside when he goes into Ralph's house?

5. In what year was Fate born?

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