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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musical instrument does Jack's mother force on him?
(a) Guitar.
(b) French horn.
(c) Violin.
(d) Flute.

2. What does Phoebe ask Jack as he begins his lunch?
(a) If he wants a napkin.
(b) If he wants to say grace.
(c) If he needs more to drink.
(d) If he wants to join the others.

3. What does Jack realize he is doing as he gets close to his father?
(a) He is crying like his father.
(b) He is smiling at his mother.
(c) He is staggering to the couch.
(d) He is looking at Phoebe.

4. What is it that makes Jack crazy once his good feelings wear off?
(a) The amount of work to do on the farm.
(b) The stupidity of the cows.
(c) The fact that his father is gone.
(d) The lack of rain.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is another thing Dale begins doing after being home for a month?

3. Since his father has returned home, what does Jack do late at night?

4. What does Jack use to push the manure in the barn into the gutters?

5. What kinds of things does Yegudkin play on the horn?

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