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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of things does Jack's mother insist her children do?
(a) School, tennis lessons, chores, and laundry.
(b) Music lessons, playdates with friends and early bedtimes.
(c) Music lessons, school, church groups and chores.
(d) School, chores, music lessons, and art lessons.

2. What does Jack use to push the manure in the barn into the gutters?
(a) A metal trowel.
(b) A long handled shovel.
(c) A blunt wooden scraper.
(d) A push broom.

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

4. What does Jack use each night to take off his boots?
(a) A bootjack.
(b) A crowbar.
(c) He just slides out of them.
(d) His hands.

5. What makes Jack turn his head and look up while he is thinking and preparing the cows for milking in the barn?
(a) One of the farmhands needs help.
(b) His mother come to talk to him.
(c) His cousin asks him a question.
(d) HIs uncle speaks to him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what day are Jack's music lessons?

3. What other things does Dale read in public?

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

5. In Dale's story, whose skull is Lord Byron trying to make into a drinking cup?

(see the answer key)

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