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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. How old is Jack Boughton as John writes about him?
(a) 51.
(b) 43.
(c) 40.
(d) 35.

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

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

4. What does the Union soldier indicate he knows to John's father?
(a) He knows John's grandfather is a deserter.
(b) He knows John's grandfather is a pacifist.
(c) He knows John's grandfather has died.
(d) He knows about John's grandfather's involvement with John Brown.

5. 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 in jail.
(b) That the way they laughed seemed beautiful to him.
(c) That the two should be coming to church.
(d) That the two were being disrespectful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hymn writer wrote "Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav'n reveal the rest"?

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

3. When John would come home and his grandfather was in the house in the midst of a vision, what would his mother tell him?

4. Who is it hard for to see good faith in another character, which John states is a "terrible problem"?

5. Jack tells John that during the Civil War, Iowa had a specific kind of regiment. According to the Tennessean who spoke to Jack, what kind of regiment was it?

(see the answer key)

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