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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 does Jayber's shop become for the town?
(a) A gathering place.
(b) A soup kitchen.
(c) A clinic.
(d) A voting place.

2. In what year was Jayber born?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1899.

3. How does Jayber pay for his college education?
(a) Bank loans.
(b) A benefactor.
(c) He gets a job.
(d) Scholarship.

4. How old is Jayber when Aunt Cordie dies?
(a) 10.
(b) 19.
(c) 3.
(d) 27.

5. How long does Jayber keep the shop open?
(a) He is open as long as people are there.
(b) He closes at 6 p.m.
(c) It varies from week to week.
(d) He closes at 8 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Port William barber shop building available?

2. Where does the man in #43 tell Jayber to go to get a job?

3. In which war did Gladdie Finn lose her son?

4. What does Jayber dislike about the boy in #73?

5. With What does Jayber struggle regarding the church?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are some of the friends and neighbors little Jonas calls aunt and uncle while living with Othy and Cordie?

2. Why is J torn between the ministry and a secular life?

3. What is Jayber's obsession with Mattie?

4. What is the irony of Jayber's burying Stanley Gibbs?

5. How does Jayber first encounter Mattie Keith?

6. How does J come to purchase the barber shop in Port William?

7. How does J encounter Burley Coulter and what does Burley encourage J to do?

8. What are Jayber's perceptions of the war?

9. What does Jayber do after he has made the decision to leave college?

10. What is the environment of Port William like and how does J (who is not called Jayber) fit in?

(see the answer keys)

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