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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 the schoolteacher use the help of a welfare office worker?
(a) To get Tarwater back.
(b) To find a new job.
(c) To get unemployment.
(d) To get child support.

2. What does Meeks do every time Tarwater mentions Mason?
(a) He challenges Mason's ideas.
(b) He rolls his eyes.
(c) He agrees with Mason's ideas.
(d) He yells at Tarwater.

3. What does Mason say will burn a prophet?
(a) Evil.
(b) People.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Water.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes the form of the devil in chapter 2?

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

3. Why would Mason leave for days at a time into the woods?

4. What does Mason tell Tarwater a benefit of living in the woods is?

5. Who does Tarwater smile like?

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