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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the time of the harvest, how long has Jack's father been gone?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

3. What is Phoebe doing in the kitchen when Jack comes in?
(a) Scrubbing the sink.
(b) Making cakes.
(c) Mopping the floor.
(d) Making chicken salad.

4. What is Phoebe's attitude as she carries the basket filled with lunch up to the field hands?
(a) She sees nothing unreasonable about lugging the basket up the hill.
(b) She is obviously frustrated and does not want to walk up the hill.
(c) She is annoyed by the insects flying in her face.
(d) She is delighted and runs up the hill.

5. Where does Jack feel a sense of belonging when he is working?
(a) In the kitchen with his mother and sister.
(b) In the fields with his uncles
(c) On the tractor with his father.
(d) In the barn with the cows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the basket Phoebe brings to Jack?

2. When Jack is on the tractor and a storm begins, what does he do?

3. What month is it when Jack sits under the tree with Phoebe and has lunch?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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