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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was John's first wife?
(a) Louisa.
(b) Linda.
(c) Laura.
(d) Lucy.

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

5. When John would come home and his grandfather was in the house in the midst of a vision, what would his mother tell him?
(a) "Don't go in the parlor."
(b) "Your grandfather is having one of his spells."
(c) "The Lord is in the parlor."
(d) "Your grandfather is talking to God."

6. When John's father sees his grandfather after his encounter with the Union soldier, what is the grandfather carrying under his arm?
(a) A rifle.
(b) A bowie knife.
(c) A haversack.
(d) Two bloody shirts.

7. What did John and his father trade with the widow for her two boiled eggs and two boiled potatoes?
(a) Jerky.
(b) Confederate money.
(c) Turnips.
(d) Onions.

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

9. How did John break his finger when he was 22?
(a) Slamming a garden gate on it.
(b) Catching a fastball.
(c) Sliding into second base.
(d) Having a horse step on it.

10. In John's house, which he has lived in since being a small boy, what is in the home that was the same from his childhood?
(a) A pie safe.
(b) An old table and a pantry.
(c) A rocking chair.
(d) A woodstove.

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

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

13. Growing up, John was ____________________ than most of his childhood friends, saying the trait "ran in his family."
(a) Smarter.
(b) Taller.
(c) Faster.
(d) Shorter.

14. What was John's father's name?
(a) Jonas Ames.
(b) John Ames.
(c) Jack Ames.
(d) Joshua Ames.

15. What does John tell his son he regrets?
(a) That he was away for long periods of time.
(b) That he lost his hearing.
(c) That he is dying.
(d) The hard times his son and his mother must have gone through.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the death of many soldiers and others all across the country at the end of WWI?

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

3. What music is playing on the radio that causes John to want to dance?

4. What song does John sing as he rocked his son?

5. What did John's father give him every time he learned five scripture verses and could repeat them without a mistake?

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