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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of the week did Jack take off from working?
(a) Saturday night.
(b) Sunday night.
(c) Sunday morning.
(d) Saturday morning.

2. What is a horse breaker?
(a) A veterinary specialist who kills horses that are dying.
(b) Someone who teaches people to saddle horses.
(c) A person who trains a horse and makes it fit for whatever kind of work it is supposed to do.
(d) A rancher who can separate a large group of wild horses.

3. What was Jack's reputation?
(a) A man of excellent character.
(b) A cheerful, optimistic encourager.
(c) A grouchy, uncommunicative jerk.
(d) A reputation for immoral behavior.

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

5. What is the name of Hannah Coulter's first husband?
(a) Nathan Coulter.
(b) Virgil Feltner.
(c) Virgil Coulter.
(d) Nathan Feltner.

6. What does everyone talk about during the group dinner?
(a) How everyone has been and what everyone is doing.
(b) The fight between Jack and Will.
(c) Jack's memories.
(d) Hannah's marital woes.

7. What did Jack do during his time off?
(a) Go to a dance or social gathering.
(b) Read.
(c) Listen to the radio.
(d) Exercise.

8. When Mat goes to Lightning's house, what does he tell Lightning to do?
(a) Go back to Mat's house and help out with Jack.
(b) Find his wife and go into town.
(c) Take the tractor and the wagon and help out some others.
(d) Look through the papers of the business.

9. What was the name of the place adjacent Jack's farm?
(a) Hargrave Place.
(b) Farrier Place.
(c) Louisville Place.
(d) Port Williams Place.

10. At the very start of the novel, to what is Jack listening?
(a) His daughter cooking.
(b) Mat yelling at his son.
(c) His wife singning.
(d) Mat calling to his cows.

11. What did Jack do to escape his domestic misery?
(a) Talked to his wife to try to work things out.
(b) Threw himself into his work.
(c) Talked to his friends about how miserable he was.
(d) Sold his land piece by piece to anyone who would buy it.

12. What does Jack do after their daughter is born?
(a) He buys more land.
(b) He begins sleeping in a separate room of the house.
(c) He completely moves out of the house.
(d) He ignores Ruth's wishes and continues to sleep with her.

13. How did Jack's family feel about the Civil War?
(a) They wanted the South to win because they needed slaves to work their land.
(b) They had little stake in keeping slavery around, but fought to defend the South from the North.
(c) They believed strongly in the institution of slavery.
(d) They were vehemently opposed to slavery.

14. When Hannah transports her children, who greets them at their destination?
(a) Mat.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Jack.
(d) Margaret.

15. What ended up drawing Ruth and Jack closer to one another?
(a) The minister at the church helped them to talk through their problems.
(b) They had another baby.
(c) He started drawing up new plans to expand the farm.
(d) Mat helped them to talk with one another about their problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mat's wife, Margaret, suggest to Mat regarding Jack?

2. When his memory at the beginning of the book is over, where does Jack go?

3. What are Mat's feelings concerning Lightning Berlew?

4. When did Jack's father die?

5. What is Lightning Berlew's wife's name?

(see the answer keys)

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