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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spent time in an insane asylum?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Tarwater.
(c) The schoolteacher.
(d) Mason.

2. When does Tarwater hear the stranger's voice?
(a) When he is sitting on the porch.
(b) When he is raking the grass.
(c) When he is digging a grave.
(d) When he is burning leaves.

3. How does Mason describe the end of the world?
(a) The world floods.
(b) Prophets ascend to heaven last.
(c) The world is on fire.
(d) Jesus holding people's hands.

4. What does Tarwater confuse the city lights with?
(a) Hell.
(b) Cars.
(c) Fire.
(d) Aliens.

5. Who is Tarwater's uncle?
(a) The schoolteacher.
(b) Francis.
(c) Joel.
(d) Mason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mason want at the head of his grave?

2. Who shoots the schoolteacher?

3. Who says they are "just now waking up"?

4. What does Tarwater think about Mason's property after Mason's death?

5. What does Tarwater compare Mason's dead eyes to?

(see the answer key)

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