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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song does John sing as he rocked his son?
(a) Holy, Holy, Holy.
(b) Go to Dark Gethsemane.
(c) At the Cross.
(d) Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed.

2. When John and his father visited the graveyard, his father said, "I would never have thought this place could be ..."
(a) Lonesome.
(b) Desolate.
(c) Dark.
(d) Beautiful.

3. What vision did John's grandfather have?
(a) Jesus healing the lepers.
(b) Jesus walking on the water.
(c) Jesus on the cross.
(d) Jesus in chains.

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

5. What is Tobias's father's name?
(a) Mr. Shoemaker.
(b) Mr. Smith
(c) Mr. Sawyer.
(d) Mr. Schmidt.

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) Lying about the soldier's whereabouts to the authorities.
(b) Agreeing with his father that what he had done was proper.
(c) Not turning his father in.
(d) Not going to look for the soldier.

7. What does John state he remembers instead of grief and loneliness?
(a) Fear and loathing.
(b) Joy and rest.
(c) Curiosity and questioning.
(d) Peace and comfort.

8. 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) "Our Father in Heaven."
(d) "The Lord Our God Is a Purifying Fire."

9. When John was a boy, a farmer was murdered with what weapon?
(a) A lead pipe.
(b) A shotgun.
(c) A bowie knife.
(d) A Confederate pistol.

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

11. 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 were being disrespectful.
(d) That the two should be coming to church.

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

13. What causes the death of many soldiers and others all across the country at the end of WWI?
(a) The Swine flu.
(b) The bird flu.
(c) The Spanish flu.
(d) Tuberculosis.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pathway in the abolitionist town become?

2. Why had John's grandfather come to Kansas from Maine?

3. John's grandfather walked out of his father's church during a sermon. Where did the grandfather go?

4. When was the only time that John did not live in Gilead?

5. When was John born?

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