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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 was Boughton's childhood name?
(a) Buster.
(b) Brewster.
(c) Benny.
(d) Bobby.

2. What popular book does Lila "melt into"?
(a) Dust Be My Destiny.
(b) Anne of Green Gables.
(c) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

3. While wandering in Kansas, what does John's father tell him that he saw coming through the doors of his father's church?
(a) John Brown's horse.
(b) John Brown.
(c) Union soldiers.
(d) John Brown's mule.

4. Why does John Ames tell his son that he might be gone sometime?
(a) Because he needs to make a trip.
(b) Because he has to go out of town on business.
(c) Because he is old.
(d) Because he's tired of living in their home.

5. John states, "It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of ____________________ you may acquire."
(a) Anger.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Grievance.
(d) Security.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As a boy, what did Jack do to the John's mailbox?

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

4. What does John say "you never quite get used to"?

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

(see the answer key)

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