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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does John feel that his son is very much like?
(a) His father.
(b) His wife.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His mother.

2. What was John's mother's name?
(a) Mary Todd Ames.
(b) Maggie Trudy Ames.
(c) Martha Tilson Ames.
(d) Margaret Todd Ames.

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

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

5. What does Edward quote as they play catch?
(a) Psalm 23.
(b) Psalm 100.
(c) Psalm 133.
(d) Psalm 40.

6. John tells a story about a building project in a little abolitionist settlement. What was built?
(a) A jail.
(b) A church.
(c) A dry goods store.
(d) A tunnel.

7. What does the pathway in the abolitionist town become?
(a) A dirt road.
(b) A small creek.
(c) A wagon trail.
(d) A major highway.

8. What do the old men in John's church call his son?
(a) Junior.
(b) Sport.
(c) Deacon.
(d) Youngster.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the cause of John's "own dark time?"

2. What biblical character does John compare Jack to?

3. What do John and Boughton see from the porch after spending an evening going over their texts?

4. What does the Union soldier indicate he knows to John's father?

5. Why did Boughton name his son Jack after John?

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