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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. What does Ballard wear around his feet on his mountain trek?
(a) Plastic bags
(b) Towels and duct tape
(c) Cloth sacks and twine
(d) Animal skins

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

3. What does Ballard steal from Greer's property?
(a) A bail of hay
(b) A slaughtered pig
(c) A hen
(d) A scythe

4. What does Ballard mix with the squirrels to make a stew?
(a) Carrots
(b) Potatoes
(c) Lard
(d) Turnips

5. Where is Ralph's daughter when Ballard shoots her?
(a) In the back yard
(b) In the bathroom
(c) In the front room
(d) In her car

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Ballard's friends has recently been picked up by the police?

3. Which of the following is not something Ballard salvages from the fire?

4. Where is the car that the The Sheriff and his Deputy inspect at the beginning of this section?

5. What color dress does Ballard buy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ballard's appearance at the end of this section.

2. What does Ballard find in the running car on the side of the road?

3. Why does Ballard decide to move the dead girl's body to an upper room?

4. How does Ballard react to Ralph's daughter's rejection of his advances?

5. How is Ballard spooked by his own footprints?

6. What crime problem is the Sheriff facing in this section?

7. What does Ballard realize about the Ralph's idiot baby?

8. What wakes Lester Ballard the night after his shopping spree in town?

9. Describe the story Fate tells about the 1899 hanging.

10. What happens to Ballard when he tries to cross the creek?

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