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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Tarwater hitch a ride into town with?
(a) Meeks.
(b) Bernice.
(c) A newspaper salesman.
(d) Buford.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rayber think Tarwater is headed into town the night he leaves the house?

2. What does Rayber call the aptitude test?

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

4. Who says they won't get used to Tarwater?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tarwater walk as he walks to the museum with Rayber and Bishop?

2. What happens when Tarwater drinks water from the pump near the Negro shack?

3. What does the driver of the car do when he realizes Tarwater is passed out?

4. Why does Rayber see himself fleeing with Lucette?

5. Why does Rayber decide to go to Powderhead with Bishop?

6. What things does Mason teach Tarwater?

7. What does Meeks say about the law of work and the law of love?

8. When Tarwater is looking over Bishop in the fountain, what does he think?

9. During the fishing trip what does Rayber say he does and does not have the guts for?

10. When Meeks asks what line of work Tarwater will get into, what does he say?

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