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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9 (pages 132-160).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why had John's grandfather come to Kansas from Maine?
(a) To start a family in a new community.
(b) To help Free Soilers establish the right to vote.
(c) To plant a church.
(d) To fight the Confederates.

2. What song does John sing as he rocked his son?
(a) Holy, Holy, Holy.
(b) Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed.
(c) At the Cross.
(d) Go to Dark Gethsemane.

3. Where did John's father take him when he was twelve?
(a) To Topeka.
(b) To Des Moines.
(c) To the family's ancestral home in Maine.
(d) To the grave of his grandfather.

4. Who put up the swing for John's son?
(a) Jack Boughton.
(b) The narrator himself.
(c) The deacons of the church.
(d) Dan Boughton.

5. What theologian does John recommend to Jack to help him with the doctrinal question he raises?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) Karl Barth.
(d) Augustine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John's mother's name?

2. What is the name of the article John reads in the Ladies' Home Journal?

3. John tells a story about a building project in a little abolitionist settlement. What was built?

4. What is Tobias's father's name?

5. What job did John help the widow with, who had just moved from her farm to a cottage in town?

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