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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack see as he starts up the tractor after lunch to go back to work?
(a) His mother standing in the doorway of the kitchen waving to him.
(b) Phoebe runs back to give him a hug.
(c) Phoebe turns and waves to him.
(d) The other men all sit and have a smoke.

2. What is Jack referring to when he says "it was what life ought to be, what he'd once believed it was."?
(a) Life should be lived to the fullest, now he is stuck on a farm.
(b) Life on the farm was good and simple before he killed his brother.
(c) Life should be easy and he does not know why it is not easy now.
(d) Life on the farm was a struggle, and now things seeem better.

3. Since his father has returned home, what does Jack do late at night?
(a) He calls his old school friends on the phone.
(b) He takes his father's motorcycle and rides into town.
(c) He goes up to the haymow or the orchard and plays his horn.
(d) He dreams of joining the army.

4. What does Jack use each night to take off his boots?
(a) He just slides out of them.
(b) A bootjack.
(c) A crowbar.
(d) His hands.

5. On what day are Jack's music lessons?
(a) Tuesdays.
(b) Saturdays.
(c) Fridays.
(d) Thursdays.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of man is Jack's father?

2. What does Jack's father struggle with about his religious beliefs?

3. What does Jack realize when he is doing his chores the night after lunch with Phoebe?

4. When Jack stops for lunch after driving the tractor in the fields all morning, where does he sit?

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

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