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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pp. 55 - 58.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?
(a) He reads his Bible.
(b) He storms out of the hut.
(c) He yells back.
(d) He smacks her.

2. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?
(a) Move.
(b) Sin.
(c) Get a low-paying job.
(d) Quit school.

3. What did John's father tell his mother to talk to John about instead of telling him the stories she had always told him?
(a) The importance of a good education.
(b) How Jesus had died for them.
(c) How to be a good man.
(d) How to avoid trouble in the village.

4. What is John's mother's name?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Mary.
(c) Annie.
(d) Susana.

5. Why does John's father ask him what he has done after asking him to sit at the start of the story?
(a) John had told his father they needed to talk.
(b) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.
(c) John will not look at him.
(d) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?

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

5. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?

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