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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where is the main character standing as he watches his father walk down the street at the start of the story?
(a) Against the tree outside his hut.
(b) In the doorway of his hut.
(c) Ih his room at school.
(d) At the bus stop.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. What does John fear as he sits before his father at the start of the story?
(a) He fears his father knows his secret.
(b) He fears his father is going to tell him he cannot go away to school.
(c) He fears his father lost his job.
(d) He fears his father is going to tell him he is moving out.

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 is John's feeling toward his father?

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

4. Where did John's parent live when John was very young?

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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