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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 is the name of the article John reads in the Ladies' Home Journal?
(a) War and the American People.
(b) God and the American People.
(c) Loss of the American People.
(d) Fear and the American People.

2. What was Jack Boughton's original name to have been?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Isaiah Jacob.
(c) John Brown.
(d) Theodore Dwight Weld.

3. What is the topic of the sermon Lila puts by John's bed that was dated June, 1947?
(a) The majesty of God.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) The wrath of God.
(d) Grace.

4. What did John say was "the last impression I want to have of this world"?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Television.
(c) War.
(d) Senility.

5. What does Jack say the chief thing his wife's father has against him?
(a) That he is an adulterer.
(b) That he is an atheist.
(c) That he cannot look after his family.
(d) That he will break her heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is John in 1947?

2. What doctrinal concept does Jack Boughton ask John his views on?

3. Who is it hard for to see good faith in another character, which John states is a "terrible problem"?

4. When Jack states that John is in an unconventional marriage himself, what is he referring to?

5. Where was Jack's wife's father's church located?

Short Essay Questions

1. Contrast how John felt about Lila when first becoming acquainted with her to how he felt about his first wife, Louisa.

2. What are Jack's reasons for coming home to Gilead?

3. Describe the relationship Jack had with a lower-class, uneducated girl.

4. Describe John's birthday.

5. What is John's point on preaching on Hagar and Ishmael?

6. Describe the nature of the letters Edward is sending home to his father and brother.

7. John states that he doesn't forgive Jack, writing "I wouldn't know were to begin." What provokes this statement?

8. What is the nature of John and Jack's first discussion at the church?

9. Describe Della's family situation.

10. What are two memories of pranks that John and Boughton share on Boughton's porch?

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