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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. Why does Tarwater drop the knocker at the schoolteacher's house?
(a) It is cold.
(b) It breaks.
(c) It looks like the devil.
(d) He doesn't want to visit.

2. What does Mason tell Tarwater about his place?
(a) Tarwater's place is the baptize children.
(b) Tarwater's place is to think and do God's will.
(c) Tarwater's place is in the house.
(d) Tarwater's place is not to think, but to act on the Lord's calling.

3. Whose voice is the stranger's?
(a) The devil.
(b) Buford.
(c) Mason.
(d) An angry neighbor.

4. 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.

5. Who does Tarwater hitch a ride into town with?
(a) Bernice.
(b) Meeks.
(c) A newspaper salesman.
(d) Buford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the schoolteacher describe as "coming out of darkness into light"?

2. Who has a gash in their ear?

3. What type of boy does Mason say Tarwater is?

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

5. What does Mason say will burn a prophet?

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