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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 word does John's mother use to describe how he treats his son?
(a) Threaten.
(b) Admonish.
(c) Persecute.
(d) Antagonize.

2. What does John's father ask him, which John feels he has told his father many times?
(a) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(b) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.
(c) John's father asks him if he did his homework.
(d) John's father asks him when his journey is.

3. How does John feel about the way his father often looks at him?
(a) He feels he looks at him with pity.
(b) He feels he looks at him with great respect.
(c) He feels he looks at him likehe is a child.
(d) He feels he looks at him like he is a sinner.

4. 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 avoid trouble in the village.
(b) How to be a good man.
(c) How Jesus had died for them.
(d) The importance of a good education.

5. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?
(a) Moral torture.
(b) Excessive leniency.
(c) Unconditional love.
(d) Tough love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?

2. What does John's father do after his wife shouts at him in a tone she has never used before?

3. What does John's father feel his wife made him do long ago, and hopes his son does not do the same thing?

4. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?

5. What is the main character's name?

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