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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7 (pages 105-115).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What vision did John's grandfather have?
(a) Jesus on the cross.
(b) Jesus in chains.
(c) Jesus healing the lepers.
(d) Jesus walking on the water.

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

4. When John's father sees his grandfather after his encounter with the Union soldier, what is the grandfather carrying under his arm?
(a) A rifle.
(b) Two bloody shirts.
(c) A haversack.
(d) A bowie knife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John have stored in boxes upstairs in his house?

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

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

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

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

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