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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10 (pages 160-173).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Boughton tell John about the trumpet vines covering his house?
(a) They kept the porch cool.
(b) They attracted butterflies.
(c) They were too much trouble to cut down.
(d) They attracted hummingbirds.

2. What does John's father bury and tell him not to dig up?
(a) His grandfather's pistol.
(b) His grandfather's letters.
(c) His grandfather's shirts.
(d) His grandfather's sermons.

3. What does John recall he and Boughton did as a prank while he was in seminary?
(a) Turning all the pews in the Episcopal church upside down.
(b) Putting a hay wagon on the roof of the courthouse.
(c) Putting hard-boiled eggs under a neighbor's setting hen.
(d) Covering the neighbor's cat with whipped cream.

4. How old was John when Lila first came to church?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Fifty-seven.
(c) Sixty-seven.
(d) Sixty-six.

5. What popular book does Lila "melt into"?
(a) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
(b) Pride and Prejudice.
(c) Anne of Green Gables.
(d) Dust Be My Destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is John's older brother?

2. What is the name of the Ames family cat?

3. When does John want the son to read his journals?

4. What causes the death of many soldiers and others all across the country at the end of WWI?

5. What did John and his father trade with the widow for her two boiled eggs and two boiled potatoes?

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