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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10 (pages 160-173).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John say is the strangest thing about "this life, about being in ministry"?
(a) People change the subject when they see you coming.
(b) People avoid you.
(c) People laugh at you.
(d) People expect you to serve them.

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

3. Why does John's father say "I never did forgive myself" after the narrator's grandfather told him about shooting the Union soldier?
(a) Not going to look for the soldier.
(b) Lying about the soldier's whereabouts to the authorities.
(c) Agreeing with his father that what he had done was proper.
(d) Not turning his father in.

4. What does Edward quote as they play catch?
(a) Psalm 40.
(b) Psalm 100.
(c) Psalm 23.
(d) Psalm 133.

5. How did John get a great reputation for wisdom?
(a) By ordering more books than he ever had time to read.
(b) By quoting scripture.
(c) From having years of seminary.
(d) By reading poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Gilead, what denomination attracted new people and young people after the Civil War?

2. What did John say was "the last impression I want to have of this world"?

3. Why did John feel that he would be a minister?

4. What does the doctor tell John to take a shot of every day?

5. According to John, visions sometimes only come under what circumstances?

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