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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 loaf of bread.
(d) A cookie.

3. What kind of flowers does John's son and wife bring him?
(a) Honeysuckles.
(b) Violets.
(c) Roses.
(d) Snapdragons.

4. Why did Boughton name his son Jack after John?
(a) Boughton liked the name John.
(b) Boughton's wife talked him into it.
(c) Boughton thought naming children after biblical characters was too showy.
(d) Boughton was afraid that he might not have another son.

5. What is the color of John's son's favorite shirt?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

6. 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.

7. What biblical character does John compare Jack to?
(a) Abel.
(b) The prodigal son.
(c) Cain.
(d) Doubting Thomas.

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

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

10. John states that "there were barrels on the street corners" so that contributions could be made to the war effort. What is placed in these barrels?
(a) Peach pits.
(b) Grease.
(c) Nylon stockings.
(d) Tin foil.

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

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

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

14. What is the shape of the weather vane on the steeple of John's church?
(a) A cross.
(b) A rooster.
(c) A pointing finger.
(d) An arrow.

15. 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.
(b) Union soldiers.
(c) John Brown's mule.
(d) John Brown's horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John's mother's name?

2. 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?

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

4. How did John lose his Greek Testament?

5. When John and his father visited the graveyard, his father said, "I would never have thought this place could be ..."

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