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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (pages 37-57).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John have stored in boxes upstairs in his house?
(a) Dishes.
(b) Baseball cards.
(c) Sermons.
(d) Letters to his first wife.

2. Growing up, John was ____________________ than most of his childhood friends, saying the trait "ran in his family."
(a) Smarter.
(b) Taller.
(c) Faster.
(d) Shorter.

3. What do the old men in John's church call his son?
(a) Youngster.
(b) Sport.
(c) Junior.
(d) Deacon.

4. When does John want the son to read his journals?
(a) When the narrator has moved away.
(b) When the son has a son of his own.
(c) When the son gets married.
(d) When the narrator is dead.

5. What did John say he dreamed about after his visit to the graveyard?
(a) Stepping on graves.
(b) Grasshoppers.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Being lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the death of many soldiers and others all across the country at the end of WWI?

2. What did John and his father trade with the widow for her two boiled eggs and two boiled potatoes?

3. Who is John's older brother?

4. What does John say is the strangest thing about "this life, about being in ministry"?

5. What is the cause of John's "own dark time?"

(see the answer key)

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