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

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

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

4. Who is it hard for to see good faith in another character, which John states is a "terrible problem"?
(a) His father.
(b) Jack Boughton.
(c) The Methodist minister.
(d) His grandfather.

5. What incident in Jack Boughton's life does John recount that happened while Jack was still in college?
(a) He got a young girl pregnant.
(b) He stole money from a liquor store.
(c) He failed and had to drop out of college.
(d) He was involved in a hit-and-run accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John lose his Greek Testament?

2. How did John break his finger when he was 22?

3. John tells a story about a building project in a little abolitionist settlement. What was built?

4. What does Jack call John's son?

5. What letter does Boughton think should be excluded from the alphabet?

(see the answer key)

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