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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who buries Mason Tarwater?
(a) Francis Marion.
(b) Buford Munson.
(c) Bernice Bishop.
(d) The schoolteacher.

2. What does Mason Tarwater do for a living?
(a) Preacher.
(b) Sells moonshine.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Shines shoes.

3. Who will inherit Mason's land?
(a) Bishop.
(b) No one.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) The schoolteacher.

4. Who does Tarwater smile like?
(a) Meeks.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Mason.
(d) The schoolteacher.

5. What does Tarwater do to the shack the night Mason dies?
(a) Tears it down.
(b) Sets fire to it.
(c) Builds an addition.
(d) Sells it cheaply.

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

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

8. What does Meeks say he graduated with?
(a) A high school diploma.
(b) An H.L.L. degree.
(c) A B.A.
(d) An M.A.

9. What about Tarwater makes fury rise in Rayber?
(a) The way he does not care about the new clothes.
(b) The way he is independent.
(c) The way he eats.
(d) The way he follows him around the house.

10. Who does the schoolteacher marry?
(a) Bernice.
(b) Sally.
(c) A schoolteacher.
(d) A bishop.

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

12. Who takes the form of the devil in chapter 2?
(a) The schoolteacher.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) Meeks.

13. Who did Mason convince to get a job in his sister's house?
(a) Luella Munson.
(b) The schoolteacher.
(c) Tarwater.
(d) Bernice.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a gash in their ear?

2. Who said, "A dead man is not going to do you any good"?

3. When does Meeks tell Tarwater to contact him?

4. What window does Tarwater stop in front of to look in?

5. What does Tarwater know as soon as he sees Bishop?

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