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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is John's son?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Seven.

2. How did John lose his Greek Testament?
(a) It was stolen by a Confederate officer.
(b) In a retreat across a river.
(c) It was inadvertantly left behind at a camp.
(d) In a fire.

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

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

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

6. How did John's father die?
(a) Of the mumps.
(b) Of tuberculosis.
(c) Of the Spanish flu.
(d) Of pneumonia.

7. John's grandfather walked out of his father's church during a sermon. Where did the grandfather go?
(a) To his home.
(b) The Presbyterian church.
(c) Downtown to walk the streets.
(d) To the Negro church.

8. What is Theodore Dwight Weld Boughton's job?
(a) He teaches at a seminary.
(b) He is a newspaper reporter.
(c) He is a sea captain.
(d) He runs a hospital for the destitute in Mississippi.

9. What does John say "you never quite get used to"?
(a) The world at night.
(b) Questions about eternity.
(c) Growing old.
(d) The scrutiny of other people.

10. What does John's father bury and tell him not to dig up?
(a) His grandfather's letters.
(b) His grandfather's pistol.
(c) His grandfather's shirts.
(d) His grandfather's sermons.

11. What does John's father offer him in the ruins of the burned-down church?
(a) A biscuit.
(b) A piece of sausage.
(c) A cookie.
(d) A loaf of bread.

12. Why did John's grandfather take him to Des Moines?
(a) To see Shoeless Joe Jackson play.
(b) To see Babe Ruth play.
(c) To see Ty Cobb play.
(d) To see Bud Fowler play.

13. According to John, visions sometimes only come under what circumstances?
(a) In dreams.
(b) In memory.
(c) In purity of thought.
(d) In prayer.

14. What is the name of the Ames family cat?
(a) Mister.
(b) Bubbles.
(c) Kitty.
(d) Soapy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When John would come home and his grandfather was in the house in the midst of a vision, what would his mother tell him?

2. John states that his wife is "an excellent woman, but unschooled in _____________________ "

3. When does John want the son to read his journals?

4. What biblical character does John compare Jack to?

5. When was John born?

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