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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (pages 37-57).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does John feel that his son is very much like?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His grandfather.

2. When does John want the son to read his journals?
(a) When the son has a son of his own.
(b) When the narrator is dead.
(c) When the son gets married.
(d) When the narrator has moved away.

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

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

5. What was John's mother's name?
(a) Mary Todd Ames.
(b) Martha Tilson Ames.
(c) Maggie Trudy Ames.
(d) Margaret Todd Ames.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two biblical characters does John's father compare the two of them to on their journey to Kansas?

2. What causes the death of many soldiers and others all across the country at the end of WWI?

3. What did John and his father trade with the widow for her two boiled eggs and two boiled potatoes?

4. What are John's feelings about the two young men who worked at the garage as he passed them on the street?

5. What do the old men in John's church call his son?

(see the answer key)

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