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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 hope to protect his son from?
(a) Danger.
(b) Evil influences.
(c) Not getting a good education.
(d) Disease.

2. 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 to be a good man.
(c) How Jesus had died for them.
(d) How to avoid trouble in the village.

3. 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) She is just as hard on him.
(d) Women will never understand.

4. What is the main character's name?
(a) Steven.
(b) John.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Paul.

5. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?
(a) Because he never wanted a child.
(b) Because he had wanted a daughter.
(c) Because John like his mother better.
(d) Because John was born out of sin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is John's mother's name?

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

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

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

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