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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15 (pages 233-247).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack say the chief thing his wife's father has against him?
(a) That he is an atheist.
(b) That he will break her heart.
(c) That he cannot look after his family.
(d) That he is an adulterer.

2. What holiday does John say his grandfather was asked to say a few words during?
(a) Memorial Day.
(b) New Year's Day.
(c) The Fourth of July.
(d) Christmas.

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

4. What did the tapestry in John's grandfather's church have written on it?
(a) "The Lord is My Shepherd."
(b) "Remember the Sabbath Day."
(c) "The Lord Our God Is a Purifying Fire."
(d) "Our Father in Heaven."

5. Why had John's grandfather come to Kansas from Maine?
(a) To fight the Confederates.
(b) To start a family in a new community.
(c) To plant a church.
(d) To help Free Soilers establish the right to vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John and his father visited the graveyard, his father said, "I would never have thought this place could be ..."

2. What does John state that the attempt to defend belief can do?

3. What does John say is the strangest thing about "this life, about being in ministry"?

4. What did Jack Boughton call John?

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

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