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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month is it when Jack sits under the tree with Phoebe and has lunch?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) May.
(d) August.

2. What does one of Betty's friends say to her about Jack?
(a) "My, what long blond hair he has!"
(b) "He has gotten so tall!"
(c) "My, what big hands he has!"
(d) "This is your son, Betty?"

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

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

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

6. When Jack enters his home after riding the tractor home in the thunderstorm, how does he behave?
(a) He is furous.
(b) He is silent.
(c) He is friendly.
(d) He is aloof.

7. How does the narrator describe Jack's father before the accident?
(a) A faithful husband and a fair minded, genial farmer.
(b) A reckless man with little control over his family.
(c) A gentle but stupid farmer.
(d) An unfatihful husband and a bad neighbor.

8. As Jack walks down the road, what is on his right?
(a) Alfalfa and wheat.
(b) Newly cultivated corn.
(c) Apple orchards.
(d) Blueberries and blackberries.

9. What does Jack find off of the cow path?
(a) Huckleberries and blackberries.
(b) Blueberries and raspberries.
(c) Cherries and red raspberries.
(d) Cherries and apples.

10. What does Jack's father struggle with about his religious beliefs?
(a) Is there a Hell?
(b) How God could be in Heaven.
(c) How anyone could not believe in God.
(d) How God could let such a horrible thing happen to his child.

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

12. When Jack's father is gone for days, who takes over the work of the farm?
(a) Jack and hired help.
(b) Jack and his uncles, nieghbors or cousins.
(c) Jack alone.
(d) Jack and his friends.

13. What religion are Jack's uncles?
(a) Methodists.
(b) Presbyterians.
(c) Baptists.
(d) Christian Scientists.

14. Where did Jack's father perform?
(a) The theatre hall.
(b) The town hall.
(c) An outdoor theatre.
(d) The Grange.

15. What have his co-workers accepted about Jack when he stops working for lunch?
(a) His need to be alone.
(b) His rudeness.
(c) His huge appetite.
(d) His gregarious ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What explanation does Jack give Phoebe at the beginning of lunch that puts her at rest?

2. What musical instrument does Jack's mother force on him?

3. What is Jack's mother's support system after the accident?

4. Who is working and helping to harvest the fields with Jack?

5. What is the only reason Jack's father does not make good on his motorcycle fantasies?

(see the answer keys)

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