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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jack feel a sense of belonging when he is working?
(a) In the kitchen with his mother and sister.
(b) In the fields with his uncles
(c) In the barn with the cows.
(d) On the tractor with his father.

2. In the opening of the story, who dies in April?
(a) Dale Hawthorne.
(b) David Hawthorne.
(c) John Hawthorne.
(d) Daniel Hawthorne.

3. What does Jack do to try and block out the raging in his head?
(a) He grinds his teeth.
(b) He waves his hands at the sky.
(c) He stomps his feet and screams.
(d) He pounds his fist on his head.

4. For what does Jack's father often abandon his wife and children?
(a) Drinking binges.
(b) Trips to the city to gamble.
(c) Love affairs with other women.
(d) Camping in the Rockies.

5. Where on the farm does Jack work with his uncles?
(a) In the dairy barn with the cows.
(b) In the back forty with the cultipacker.
(c) In the silo shoveling grain.
(d) In the fields with the tractors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only reason Jack's father does not make good on his motorcycle fantasies?

2. What is the name of the feed store?

3. What kind of man is Jack's father?

4. After the accident, what are the themes of Jack's stories?

5. What kinds of things does Jack's mother insist her children do?

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