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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Death of the Old Man through Chapter 19, Kansas to Missouri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Will find when he returns from the war?
(a) The farm in ruins.
(b) His parents dead and gone.
(c) Henry in jail.
(d) His girlfriend married.

2. What does Will say when Henry asks him why he threw the thing into Joe's grave?
(a) He wanted Joe to have it.
(b) He didn't want to see the thing around.
(c) He saved all the working parts from the thing.
(d) He knew that Joe wouldn't want anyone else to have it.

3. What does Henry lament in Santa Fe?
(a) The iron mills.
(b) The loss of beauty in the land.
(c) The poverty.
(d) The nuclear reactor.

4. What does Henry remember loving in high school?
(a) Football.
(b) Watching girls.
(c) His teachers.
(d) Basketball.

5. As a former ranger, what does Henry speak to groups about?
(a) Wildlife.
(b) The history of the land.
(c) Evolution.
(d) The fragility of the ecosystem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What draws Will's attention to Joe?

2. What does Henry stop for, in Chapter 5?

3. Where does Henry decide to travel to with his dog?

4. What does the preacher talk about at Joe's funeral?

5. What does Henry do when he wakes up, in Chapter 3, after remembering his birth and family?

(see the answer key)

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