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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What recitation of his father's does Jack recall as he suffers his anger and grief?
(a) Cicero's final speech.
(b) Mark Antony's condemnation.
(c) Silas Marner's monologue.
(d) Brutus' soliloquy.

2. For what does Jack's father often abandon his wife and children?
(a) Drinking binges.
(b) Love affairs with other women.
(c) Trips to the city to gamble.
(d) Camping in the Rockies.

3. What is in the basket Phoebe brings to Jack?
(a) Chicken, rolls, celery and salt.
(b) Tuna, bread and cookies.
(c) Chicken, biscuits, carrots and ranch dip.
(d) Ham sandwiches and fresh fruit.

4. When Jack stops for lunch after driving the tractor in the fields all morning, where does he sit?
(a) In the shade of an elm away from the others.
(b) With his cousins.
(c) In the shade of an oak tree.
(d) Under the overhang on the barn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack do to try and block out the raging in his head?

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

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

4. What is one of the story themes Jack uses again and again?

5. When Jack cannot make his good feelings last, what does he do?

(see the answer key)

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