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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (pages 72-85).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John's first wife die?
(a) From a fall.
(b) From the measles.
(c) From tuberculosis.
(d) In childbirth.

2. What is John's son's friend's name?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Tobias.
(c) Todd.
(d) Timothy.

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

4. What does John say "you never quite get used to"?
(a) Growing old.
(b) Questions about eternity.
(c) The world at night.
(d) The scrutiny of other people.

5. Who is John's older brother?
(a) Boughton.
(b) Henry.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Edward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say is the strangest thing about "this life, about being in ministry"?

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

3. Why does John Ames tell his son that he might be gone sometime?

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

5. What ailment does John have, according to his doctor?

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