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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 is the color of John's son's favorite shirt?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

2. What does John's father offer him in the ruins of the burned-down church?
(a) A piece of sausage.
(b) A loaf of bread.
(c) A cookie.
(d) A biscuit.

3. In Gilead, what denomination attracted new people and young people after the Civil War?
(a) The Presbyterians.
(b) The Unitarians.
(c) The Methodists.
(d) The Baptists.

4. What are John's feelings about the two young men who worked at the garage as he passed them on the street?
(a) That the two should be coming to church.
(b) That the way they laughed seemed beautiful to him.
(c) That the two were being disrespectful.
(d) That the two should be in jail.

5. What does John's father bury and tell him not to dig up?
(a) His grandfather's pistol.
(b) His grandfather's sermons.
(c) His grandfather's letters.
(d) His grandfather's shirts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Boughton name his son Jack after John?

2. What was John's mother's name?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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