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

2. What does Lucette say is coming?
(a) My Word.
(b) David.
(c) My Lord.
(d) The end of the world.

3. What type of boy does Mason say Tarwater is?
(a) The type the devil is always going to try to assist.
(b) The type that people will take advantage of.
(c) The type that won't understand until it's too late.
(d) The type that women will ignore.

4. Who said that their parents did not teach them anything, except "not to wet the bed"?
(a) Mason.
(b) Bishop.
(c) The schoolteacher.
(d) Tarwater.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spent time in an insane asylum?

2. Who does the schoolteacher marry?

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

4. What happened after Rayber was shot by Mason?

5. Who buries Mason Tarwater?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Mason tells Tarwater about his kidnapping, what does he say about the schoolteacher?

2. What does Tarwater do when Bishop sits on the stairs in front of him at the hotel?

3. Why does Tarwater start walking toward Powderhead?

4. What does the stranger's voice tell Tarwater about burying Mason?

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

6. How does Tarwater respond when he runs into Rayber after leaving the church?

7. How does Rayber describe the windows of the building Lucette preaches in?

8. What becomes apparent to Tarwater after the death of Mason?

9. In the beginning of chapter 3, why does Tarwater not look at the sky?

10. When Tarwater is digging the grave for Mason, what does he think of Rayber?

(see the answer keys)

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