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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. When John and his father visited the graveyard, his father said, "I would never have thought this place could be ..."
(a) Dark.
(b) Lonesome.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Desolate.

2. What song does John sing as he rocked his son?
(a) At the Cross.
(b) Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed.
(c) Holy, Holy, Holy.
(d) Go to Dark Gethsemane.

3. What letter does Boughton think should be excluded from the alphabet?
(a) R.
(b) O.
(c) M.
(d) L.

4. What did John's father give him every time he learned five scripture verses and could repeat them without a mistake?
(a) A quarter.
(b) A penny.
(c) A nickel.
(d) A dime.

5. What does the doctor tell John to take a shot of every day?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Red wine.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Boughton's childhood name?

2. What does John state happened the next day after he heard the story about the wounded Union soldier from his father?

3. What does the pathway in the abolitionist town become?

4. Why does John's father say "I never did forgive myself" after the narrator's grandfather told him about shooting the Union soldier?

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

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