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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9 (pages 132-160).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John writes, "I don't want to be old. And I certainly don't want to be _____________ ."
(a) A burden.
(b) Weak.
(c) Dead.
(d) Confused.

2. Why had John's grandfather come to Kansas from Maine?
(a) To start a family in a new community.
(b) To fight the Confederates.
(c) To plant a church.
(d) To help Free Soilers establish the right to vote.

3. What music is playing on the radio that causes John to want to dance?
(a) The foxtrot.
(b) The Lindy Hop.
(c) The quickstep.
(d) A waltz.

4. What does the Union soldier indicate he knows to John's father?
(a) He knows John's grandfather is a deserter.
(b) He knows about John's grandfather's involvement with John Brown.
(c) He knows John's grandfather has died.
(d) He knows John's grandfather is a pacifist.

5. What do John and Boughton see from the porch after spending an evening going over their texts?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Distant fires.
(d) Sunrise.

Short Answer Questions

1. While wandering in Kansas, what does John's father tell him that he saw coming through the doors of his father's church?

2. What does the doctor tell John to take a shot of every day?

3. When John and his father visited the graveyard, his father said, "I would never have thought this place could be ..."

4. John tells a story about a building project in a little abolitionist settlement. What was built?

5. What does John's father bury and tell him not to dig up?

(see the answer key)

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