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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much time does John say he has before going away to school at the start of the story?
(a) One month.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) 6 months.

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

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

5. What adjectives are used to describe John's father as he walks down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Large and mean.
(b) Husky and strong.
(c) Elegant and intelligent.
(d) Frail but energetic.

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

7. What does John's father hope to protect his son from?
(a) Not getting a good education.
(b) Disease.
(c) Danger.
(d) Evil influences.

8. 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 to avoid trouble in the village.
(d) How Jesus had died for them.

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

10. 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.

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

12. 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 John was born out of sin.
(c) Because he had wanted a daughter.
(d) Because John like his mother better.

13. 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 like he is a sinner.
(c) He feels he looks at him likehe is a child.
(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) Admonish.
(c) Antagonize.
(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 yells back.
(b) He storms out of the hut.
(c) He reads his Bible.
(d) He smacks her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words are used to describe the way John's father treats his son, which his wife "was never blind to" (57)?

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

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

4. What is John's mother doing quietly when his father asks him to sit down?

5. Where does John's father tell him they will go the next day when they first speak at the start of the story?

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