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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing Jack's father thinks about when riding his motorcycle?
(a) Selling the farm and moving away.
(b) Committing suicide.
(c) Committing murder.
(d) Leaving his wife and family for another woman.

2. What is the kitchen like in Jack's house?
(a) It is empty and dark.
(b) It is painted a dark blue.
(c) It is a mess from the wind storm.
(d) It is filled with people and the smell of food.

3. How does Jack come to feel about his raging on the tractor?
(a) Proud.
(b) Happy that he is so much like his father.
(c) Hopeful of becoming an actor.
(d) Ashamed.

4. What is the victim riding when he falls off and is run over?
(a) The compactor.
(b) The tractor.
(c) The trailor.
(d) The cultipacker.

5. After the accident, what are the themes of Jack's stories?
(a) Self-sacrifice and redemption.
(b) Super heroes and world domination.
(c) Running away to desert islands.
(d) Murder and kidnapping.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Jack sometimes find his father after the accident?

3. In the opening of the story, who dies in April?

4. How old is the youngest child at the time of the accident?

5. When Jack's father is gone for days, who takes over the work of the farm?

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