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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Quit school.
(c) Sin.
(d) Get a low-paying job.

3. What does John's father carry in his bag as he walks down the street?
(a) A Bible.
(b) His change purse.
(c) School books.
(d) His shoes.

4. 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.

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

6. How does John's mother always refer to him?
(a) John John.
(b) Little John.
(c) The boy.
(d) Little one.

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

8. 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) I am too easy on him.
(b) She is just as hard on him.
(c) She has a point.
(d) Women will never understand.

9. 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) Tough love.
(d) Unconditional love.

10. What is John's father's occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Teacher.

11. 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 did his homework.
(b) John's father asks him if he cleaned his hut.
(c) John's father asks him when his journey is.
(d) John's father asks him if he got good grades this term.

12. What does John's father call his wife?
(a) Love.
(b) Sister.
(c) Susie-dear.
(d) Susana.

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

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

15. 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 smacks her.
(c) He storms out of the hut.
(d) He yells back.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. Why does John's mother wonder if his father's treatment of him stems from resentment?

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