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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Jack walks down the road, what is on his right?
(a) Apple orchards.
(b) Blueberries and blackberries.
(c) Alfalfa and wheat.
(d) Newly cultivated corn.

2. What do his co-workers accept about Dale Hawthorne since his son has died?
(a) His father's death.
(b) His father's refusal to work during harvest.
(c) HIs father's ways of handling his brother's death.
(d) His father's drinking.

3. Where does Jack sometimes find his father after the accident?
(a) Lying on the cow-barn floor crying.
(b) Lyning in the hammock in the back field.
(c) Lying on the couch watching tv.
(d) Lying in bed drinking.

4. How much time has passed between David's death and harvest time in the fields?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two years.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) Three years.

5. How old is the youngest child at the time of the accident?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Jack's father often abandon his wife and children?

2. Where does Jack feel a sense of belonging when he is working?

3. What is Jack referring to when he says "it was what life ought to be, what he'd once believed it was."?

4. How does the narrator describe Jack's mother before the accident?

5. What does Jack say to his father while he stands in the living room door?

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