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

2. At which point is it said that John's parents stopped being happy?
(a) When John left for college.
(b) When he became a preacher.
(c) When his mother got a job.
(d) After John was born.

3. What is John's feeling toward his father?
(a) Fear.
(b) Warmth.
(c) Anger.
(d) Admiration.

4. 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 will not look at him.
(c) John's mother told him he had gotten into trouble.
(d) John's father heard a rumor about him in town.

5. What does John's father tell him he does not want him to hear of before dismissing John from their conversation at the start of the story?
(a) He does not want to hear that John is not doing well in school.
(b) He does not want to hear that John has a girlfriend.
(c) He does not want to hear John is disobeying his mother.
(d) He does not want to hear of any trouble.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?

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

4. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?

5. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?

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