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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What small town does this story begin in?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) Powderhead.
(c) Clamhead.
(d) Backwoods.

2. When Rayber is watching Lucette's parents, who does he keep envisioning?
(a) Tarwater.
(b) His father.
(c) The devil.
(d) Mason.

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

4. What does Mason want at the head of his grave?
(a) An angel.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A stone.
(d) A cross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a gash in their ear?

2. When does Meeks tell Tarwater to contact him?

3. After four days with Tarwater, how does the schoolteacher feel?

4. What is part of a "simple equation that required no further solution"?

5. What does Tarwater do with Mason's coffin?

(see the answer key)

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