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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12 (pages 185-201).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jack drops by John's home one evening as he and his family are rocking on the porch. What does Lila bring them?
(a) Hot tea.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Cool water.
(d) Hot cider.

2. What does Jack call John's son?
(a) Little sport.
(b) Little brother.
(c) Little John.
(d) Little man.

3. What does John do as he walks down the streets of his town at one or two a.m.?
(a) Pray for people in their homes.
(b) Feels sorry for himself.
(c) Recites poetry.
(d) Sings to himself.

4. According to John, how does Jack treat words?
(a) As food for thought.
(b) As a challenge.
(c) As weapons.
(d) As objects of scorn.

5. What does John recall he and Boughton did as a prank while he was in seminary?
(a) Covering the neighbor's cat with whipped cream.
(b) Putting a hay wagon on the roof of the courthouse.
(c) Putting hard-boiled eggs under a neighbor's setting hen.
(d) Turning all the pews in the Episcopal church upside down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What baseball team does Jack Boughton favor?

2. According to John, his son looks at Jack as though he were who?

3. What does John state he remembers instead of grief and loneliness?

4. John states that a famous theologian said, "Each of us is an actor on stage and God is the audience." Who was the theologian?

5. After Jack brings John and his family a sack of gourds, what does Lila give Jack in return?

(see the answer key)

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