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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 music is playing on the radio that causes John to want to dance?
(a) The foxtrot.
(b) The Lindy Hop.
(c) The quickstep.
(d) A waltz.

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

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

4. How did John get a great reputation for wisdom?
(a) From having years of seminary.
(b) By reading poetry.
(c) By quoting scripture.
(d) By ordering more books than he ever had time to read.

5. Why did John feel that he would be a minister?
(a) He knew he would fail at anything else.
(b) He was compelled by what he had learned through reading the bible.
(c) His mother forced him into the ministry.
(d) It was the only life he knew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John tell his son he regrets?

2. What does John do as he walks down the streets of his town at one or two a.m.?

3. When was the only time that John did not live in Gilead?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the moment of communion John experiences in the ruins of the burned-out church.

3. According to John, what are some of the strangest things about being in the ministry?

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

5. Why does John feel that his memories of fleeting incidents are so vivid to him?

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

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

8. Describe how John learned scripture.

9. How does John describe being "imperishable"?

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

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