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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 13 (pages 202-215).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object do John's son and Tobias "chuck pebbles" at?
(a) Soapy.
(b) An aluminum pie plate.
(c) A Dodgers cap.
(d) A tin can.

2. What were Jack Boughton's first words to John after he met him in church the first time?
(a) "I'm very sorry."
(b) "How 'bout them Yankees?"
(c) "How is my father really doing?"
(d) "I don't want to bother you."

3. John states that a famous theologian said, "Each of us is an actor on stage and God is the audience." Who was the theologian?
(a) Locke.
(b) Calvin.
(c) Augustine.
(d) Luther.

4. When John was a boy, a farmer was murdered with what weapon?
(a) A lead pipe.
(b) A Confederate pistol.
(c) A bowie knife.
(d) A shotgun.

5. After Jack brings John and his family a sack of gourds, what does Lila give Jack in return?
(a) A watermelon.
(b) Green tomatoes.
(c) Cucumbers.
(d) Squash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did John help the widow with, who had just moved from her farm to a cottage in town?

2. When John would come home and his grandfather was in the house in the midst of a vision, what would his mother tell him?

3. What caused John and his father to be "not quite at ease" with each other for the first time in John's life?

4. What hymn writer wrote "Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav'n reveal the rest"?

5. In Gilead, what denomination attracted new people and young people after the Civil War?

(see the answer key)

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