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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. When does John want the son to read his journals?
(a) When the son gets married.
(b) When the narrator has moved away.
(c) When the son has a son of his own.
(d) When the narrator is dead.

2. Why had John's grandfather come to Kansas from Maine?
(a) To help Free Soilers establish the right to vote.
(b) To start a family in a new community.
(c) To plant a church.
(d) To fight the Confederates.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the old men in John's church call his son?

2. Why does John Ames tell his son that he might be gone sometime?

3. John tells a story about a building project in a little abolitionist settlement. What was built?

4. In Gilead, what denomination attracted new people and young people after the Civil War?

5. According to John, visions sometimes only come under what circumstances?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the preaching John's grandfather did after coming back from the war, and how it affected his listeners.

3. What was the nature of the meeting John had with the church trustees regarding the church building?

4. How does John describe being in the world at night?

5. What are some of John's impressions of Tobias and his son?

6. How does John describe being "imperishable"?

7. Describe how John learned scripture.

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

9. How does John view Jack Boughton prior to his coming?

10. What are the basic facts about John's first marriage?

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