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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 John state that the attempt to defend belief can do?
(a) It can make the defender stronger.
(b) It can unsettle belief.
(c) It can cause arguments.
(d) It angers God.

2. John states he is preaching from Genesis 12:14 - 21, concerning what two biblical characters?
(a) Cain and Abel.
(b) Adam and Eve.
(c) Abraham and Issac.
(d) Hagar and Ishmael.

3. What is the name of the woman who shared Jack's wife's rooms with her?
(a) Linda.
(b) Lorraine.
(c) Lizabeth.
(d) Lucy.

4. Jack Boughton tells John during their meeting in the church, "I wish I could have been like ___________________ ."
(a) You.
(b) My father.
(c) Your father.
(d) My mother.

5. Jack tells John that during the Civil War, Iowa had a specific kind of regiment. According to the Tennessean who spoke to Jack, what kind of regiment was it?
(a) A graybeard regiment.
(b) A Methodist regiment.
(c) A colored regiment.
(d) A teenage regiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jack's son's name?

2. Which character said, "Maybe some people aren't so comfortable with themselves"?

3. What is Tobias not allowed to do?

4. What did John's son recite to him twice on John's birthday?

5. What did Boughton tell John about the trumpet vines covering his house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John attempt to love Jack?

2. Contrast how John felt about Lila when first becoming acquainted with her to how he felt about his first wife, Louisa.

3. How does John respond to Jack's question about his family moving to Gilead?

4. What does John believe about the soul in Paradise?

5. John states that he doesn't forgive Jack, writing "I wouldn't know were to begin." What provokes this statement?

6. How does John describe the responsibility that comes from encountering another person?

7. What does Jack share with John that acts as a prelude to the novel's climax? Share some details about the specifics of Jack's revelation.

8. What are Jack's reasons for coming home to Gilead?

9. How does John recall Jack's baptism?

10. Describe the nature of the letters Edward is sending home to his father and brother.

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