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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6 (pages 86-104).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John tell his son he regrets?
(a) That he is dying.
(b) That he was away for long periods of time.
(c) The hard times his son and his mother must have gone through.
(d) That he lost his hearing.

2. In John's house, which he has lived in since being a small boy, what is in the home that was the same from his childhood?
(a) A woodstove.
(b) A pie safe.
(c) A rocking chair.
(d) An old table and a pantry.

3. Why did John feel that he would be a minister?
(a) His mother forced him into the ministry.
(b) He was compelled by what he had learned through reading the bible.
(c) It was the only life he knew.
(d) He knew he would fail at anything else.

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

5. What two biblical characters does John's father compare the two of them to on their journey to Kansas?
(a) Jacob and Esau.
(b) Cain and Abel.
(c) Abraham and Isaac.
(d) Adam and Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tobias's father's name?

2. What relieved Lila when she found out ________________ was not the same as work on Sundays?

3. What does John state he remembers instead of grief and loneliness?

4. Growing up, John was ____________________ than most of his childhood friends, saying the trait "ran in his family."

5. What is Theodore Dwight Weld Boughton's job?

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