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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. What did John and his father trade with the widow for her two boiled eggs and two boiled potatoes?
(a) Confederate money.
(b) Onions.
(c) Turnips.
(d) Jerky.

2. What do John and Boughton see from the porch after spending an evening going over their texts?
(a) Fireflies.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Sunrise.
(d) Distant fires.

3. What is the name of the article John reads in the Ladies' Home Journal?
(a) War and the American People.
(b) God and the American People.
(c) Fear and the American People.
(d) Loss of the American People.

4. Which of the Ten Commandments does John want his son to be particularly aware of?
(a) The fifth commandment.
(b) The tenth commandment.
(c) The first commandment.
(d) The seventh commandment.

5. How did John lose his Greek Testament?
(a) It was inadvertantly left behind at a camp.
(b) It was stolen by a Confederate officer.
(c) In a fire.
(d) In a retreat across a river.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John met with the church trustees, what suggestions from him did they ignore?

2. What is the name of the Ames family cat?

3. What does John say was the most thrilling thing that ever happened in his life?

4. What is John's favorite breakfast?

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

(see the answer key)

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