2. What work did Ballard do to make money to buy his rifle?
(a) Digging a ditch
(b) Setting fence posts
(c) Restocking the general store
(d) Plowing fields

3. What does Ballard offer to show the Sheriff when they take him away?
(a) The path
(b) A body
(c) His rifle
(d) His buttocks

4. What kind of return does the auctioneer promise on the investment of Ballard's property?
(a) At least sixteen percent
(b) At least ten percent
(c) At least twenty percent
(d) At least three percent

5. To what are the musicians and auctioneer compared at the end of Act 1?
(a) The pied piper and his rats
(b) A line of fence posts
(c) A shooting gallery
(d) A band of thieves

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a name listed as one of the Dumpkeeper's daughters

2. What food is Ballard's friend's wife making while he waits?

3. What free gifts are being handed out at the auction?

4. Who finally subdues the Sleeping Woman at the police station?

5. The blacksmith warns that if the axe metal turns a certain color, the axe is ruined. What color does he say?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the unnamed man in Chapter 5 (pp. 17-18) decide he does not like Lester Ballard?

2. What happened to Lester Ballard's parents?

3. What news does Darfuzzle give Ballard?

4. Describe the boxing match that happens at the end of this section.

5. Describe the interchange that Ballard has with the Dumpkeeper's blonde daughter.

6. How do people react to Ballard in the Six-Mile Church?

7. Why does Ballard abruptly leave the Dumpkeeper's house in Chapter 16?

8. What does Lester Ballard discover in a car outside his shack one night, and what happens?

9. What transpires between Ballard and the woman he finds sleeping on Frog Mountain?

10. Describe Lester's new home.

(see the answer keys)

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