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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarwater do with the books, clothing, and other items the schoolteacher bought for him?
(a) Tarwater hides them.
(b) Tarwater ignores them.
(c) Tarwater sells them.
(d) Tarwater says thank you.

2. Why does Rayber leave his house at the end of chapter 4?
(a) Because Bishop ran away.
(b) Because he needed to go to the store.
(c) Because of a fight.
(d) Because Tarwater was gone.

3. What does Rayber call the aptitude test?
(a) A game.
(b) Too hard for Tarwater.
(c) A measure of ability.
(d) Work.

4. Whose head was Mason "tied hand and foot inside"?
(a) Bishop's.
(b) The schoolteacher's.
(c) Tarwater's.
(d) Meek's.

5. What was the one time Mason decided to stop prophesying?
(a) When he was at the schoolteacher's house.
(b) When he was an old man.
(c) When he was in the asylum.
(d) When he turned thirty.

6. What does Meeks think of Tarwater after driving for only a short while?
(a) That he has a good business idea.
(b) That he is just trying to sell him something.
(c) That he is a runaway.
(d) That he is related.

7. What does Tarwater do with Mason's coffin?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He buries Mason in it.
(c) He does not use it.
(d) He rebuilds it.

8. Where was Mason kept for four years?
(a) A college.
(b) A church.
(c) An asylum.
(d) The woods.

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

10. What is the first thing Tarwater says to the schoolteacher?
(a) That he needs money.
(b) That God sent him there.
(c) That Mason is dead.
(d) That he needs to see Bishop.

11. How old was Lucette when she began preaching?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Six.

12. When does Meeks tell Tarwater to contact him?
(a) In a month.
(b) If he gets hungry by next week.
(c) If he can't stay with his uncle.
(d) In two days.

13. What reason does Mason give for his finding a lover for Tarwater's mother?
(a) To raise her self-confidence.
(b) To earn money.
(c) To get her a child.
(d) To get her to move away.

14. How did Mason describe Tarwater's sister?
(a) He called her beautiful.
(b) He called her a lost cause.
(c) He called her his favorite.
(d) He called her a dirty name.

15. What does Tarwater do when he and Rayber return home from the church?
(a) He stands outside the door for a moment.
(b) He says he wants to eat.
(c) He goes directly to bed.
(d) He refuses to come inside.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mason describe the schoolteacher's house?

2. What does Tarwater confuse the city lights with?

3. Why does Rayber have a hard time walking around the town?

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

5. When does Tarwater hear the stranger's voice?

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