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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 58 - 62 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is something that "the white man's religion" (62) does not allow?
(a) People to marry if they are not in love.
(b) Men to marry circumcised women.
(c) Father's to choose their daughter's husbands.
(d) People from different tribes to marry.

2. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?
(a) One week.
(b) 6 months.
(c) One month.
(d) 8 weeks.

3. What does the old woman who asks John how he is call him?
(a) Nephew.
(b) Son.
(c) My child.
(d) Brother.

4. What religion did the family convert to when John was young?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Christianity.

5. What does John's father think as he pauses before responding after his wife asks him why he treats John the way he does?
(a) She has a point.
(b) I am too easy on him.
(c) Women will never understand.
(d) She is just as hard on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's feeling toward his father?

2. Who is it said that some of the educated boys return to the village with?

3. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?

4. During what war is John's village said to have grown?

5. What word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?

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