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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three, Ruth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason for Mat's feelings toward Lightning Berlew?
(a) They have been through very difficult times together.
(b) Mat likes Lightning but not Lightning's wife because she is a crook.
(c) Lightning is the smartest man Mat knows.
(d) He is not hard working.

2. In Jack's memory of the mules, how old is Mat?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) One.

3. What physical gesture does Mat make toward Jack once in the store?
(a) Mat puts his hand on Jack's shoulder.
(b) Mat hugs Jack.
(c) Mat shakes Jack's hand.
(d) Mat puts his hand on Jack's head.

4. When his memory at the beginning of the book is over, where does Jack go?
(a) Ben Felter's store.
(b) Inside his house.
(c) Nancy's house.
(d) Jasper Lathrope's store.

5. Which of the following statements best describes the mules?
(a) They were an expensive present to himself.
(b) The mules were given to him by his father.
(c) He got the mules inexchange for land.
(d) The mules were very inexpensive, and he was taking them off of a friend's hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens right before Jack decides to leave the store?

2. Why did Jack work tirelessly on the farm?

3. As the novel opens, what is Jack's age?

4. What is significant about Jasper Lathrope's store?

5. Where is the Berlew's new house?

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