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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) Cloth sacks and twine
(c) Animal skins
(d) Towels and duct tape

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food does Ballard buy in the general store on the other side of the mountain?

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

3. Into what other county does Ballard cross at the beginning of this section?

4. Which of the following is not something that Ballard takes with him from the car?

5. What does Ballard do with the girl's body at the end of Chapter 27 (pp. 93-95)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Ballard go to Blount County?

4. How does Ballard's situation change in this section?

5. In what state is the town in this section?

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

7. How is Ballard spooked by his own footprints?

8. How were the White Caps run out of Sevier?

9. What does Ballard do on his trip into town?

10. How do the police catch Kirby selling jars of whiskey?

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