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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 Jack indignant about when he is in the kitchen?
(a) Everyone pretending eveything is ok.
(b) HIs mother is eating again.
(c) He is the only one working this hard.
(d) Everyone talking too loudly.

2. What does Jack do while riding on the tractor?
(a) He plans his escape from his family.
(b) He dreams of better times with his family.
(c) He worries about his mother.
(d) He replays the accident scene again and again.

3. How does Jack's mother deal with her grief outwardly?
(a) By playing cards with friends.
(b) By eating herself into a state of being overweight.
(c) By crying nightly with the children.
(d) By refusing to speak to her husband.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jack's mother's support system after the accident?

2. To whom does Jack confide in and tell his tractor stories?

3. Where is Jack when he is making up his stories?

4. How far is the Hawthorne farm from the nearest house?

5. On what does Jack concentrate in order to regain his composure after his painful thoughts?

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