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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarwater say about burying Mason?
(a) Mason wanted too fancy of a grave.
(b) Mason did not leave instructions.
(c) Mason's coffin broke.
(d) Mason was too big to bury.

2. What does Tarwater know as soon as he sees Bishop?
(a) That he needs to kidnap him.
(b) That the schoolteacher has been beating him.
(c) That he needs a bath.
(d) That he has to baptize him.

3. What does the schoolteacher first think when Tarwater shows up at his house?
(a) That he has won.
(b) That it is a trick.
(c) That he is selling something.
(d) That he is in trouble.

4. Why would Mason leave for days at a time into the woods?
(a) To earn money.
(b) To meditate.
(c) To communicate with God.
(d) To fight with animals.

5. What does the schoolteacher describe as "coming out of darkness into light"?
(a) Raising Bishop.
(b) Tarwater breaking free from Mason.
(c) Getting baptized.
(d) Tarwater riding with Meeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tarwater drop the knocker at the schoolteacher's house?

2. Whose head was Mason "tied hand and foot inside"?

3. What does Tarwater want to make clear to Rayber, the "schoolteacher", the morning he goes to his house?

4. Who has a gash in their ear?

5. What was the one time Mason decided to stop prophesying?

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