2. What does John say is the strangest thing about "this life, about being in ministry"?
(a) People avoid you.
(b) People laugh at you.
(c) People change the subject when they see you coming.
(d) People expect you to serve them.

3. What do John and Boughton see from the porch after spending an evening going over their texts?
(a) Lightning.
(b) Distant fires.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Sunrise.

4. How did John's first wife die?
(a) From a fall.
(b) From the measles.
(c) In childbirth.
(d) From tuberculosis.

5. 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 mule.
(b) Union soldiers.
(c) John Brown's horse.
(d) John Brown.

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

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

8. When was the only time that John did not live in Gilead?
(a) When he was away at seminary.
(b) When his family lived for a while in Florida.
(c) When he served as a missionary in Africa.
(d) When he served in the Army.

9. 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 rocking chair.
(b) An old table and a pantry.
(c) A pie safe.
(d) A woodstove.

10. What does the doctor tell John to take a shot of every day?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Red wine.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Brandy.

11. What does John do as he walks down the streets of his town at one or two a.m.?
(a) Sings to himself.
(b) Pray for people in their homes.
(c) Recites poetry.
(d) Feels sorry for himself.

12. What ailment does John have, according to his doctor?
(a) Angina pectoris.
(b) Pancreatic cancer.
(c) Gastro-intestinal reflux disease.
(d) Congestive heart failure.

13. 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 deserter.
(c) He knows John's grandfather is a pacifist.
(d) He knows about John's grandfather's involvement with John Brown.

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

15. Who put up the swing for John's son?
(a) The narrator himself.
(b) The deacons of the church.
(c) Dan Boughton.
(d) Jack Boughton.