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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jack when he has painful thoughts on the tractor?
(a) He stops the tractor and goes home for something to eat.
(b) He laughs it all off and drives the tractor home.
(c) He sobs and loses control of the tractor.
(d) He shakes in weakness and finally gets off the tractor to rest.

2. Who is working and helping to harvest the fields with Jack?
(a) His mother and grandfather.
(b) Friends and uncles.
(c) Phoebe and her friends.
(d) Neighbors and cousins.

3. What sight does Jack see when he remembers his brother's death?
(a) The brake on the tractor.
(b) The cultipacker stalling when it hits his brother.
(c) The cultipacker rolling over his brother's body.
(d) The evening sky.

4. What can Jack hear from the other workers sitting at the other lunch site?
(a) Whispering.
(b) A man yelling over to him.
(c) Laughter and yelling.
(d) Laughter over a joke told by his cousin.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Jack walks down the road, what is on his right?

2. What about his surroundings does Jack become aware of while eating his lunch?

3. How much time has passed between David's death and harvest time in the fields?

4. What is one thing Jack's father thinks about when riding his motorcycle?

5. While riding on the tractor, what things does Jack say about himself to himself?

(see the answer key)

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