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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 tell his son he regrets?
(a) That he lost his hearing.
(b) That he is dying.
(c) That he was away for long periods of time.
(d) The hard times his son and his mother must have gone through.

2. Why did John feel that he would be a minister?
(a) It was the only life he knew.
(b) He knew he would fail at anything else.
(c) He was compelled by what he had learned through reading the bible.
(d) His mother forced him into the ministry.

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

4. When John and his father visited the graveyard, his father said, "I would never have thought this place could be ..."
(a) Dark.
(b) Lonesome.
(c) Desolate.
(d) Beautiful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Boughton's childhood name?

2. When was John born?

3. What kind of flowers does John's son and wife bring him?

4. What ailment does John have, according to his doctor?

5. When does John want the son to read his journals?

(see the answer key)

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