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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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) Beautiful.
(d) Dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John state happened the next day after he heard the story about the wounded Union soldier from his father?

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

3. What did the tapestry in John's grandfather's church have written on it?

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

5. What is the color of John's son's favorite shirt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are John's thoughts on the Lord's Supper? How does his son figure into this account?

2. How does John describe himself as a younger man?

3. What are some of John's comments on water?

4. What is the story John's father tells him about John Brown's mule?

5. What is the significance behind the story of the farmer who was murdered with a bowie knife, and what does that have to do with John's grandfather?

6. How does John explain death to people who ask what it is like?

7. Describe some of the events John and his father faced in their journey to Kansas.

8. What does John learn about his grandfather and his encounter with a Union soldier?

9. Describe John's brother, Edward.

10. What are John's feelings about baseball, and what incidents contributed to those feelings?

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