View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Boughton's childhood name?
(a) Benny.
(b) Bobby.
(c) Buster.
(d) Brewster.

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

3. According to John, visions sometimes only come under what circumstances?
(a) In dreams.
(b) In memory.
(c) In purity of thought.
(d) In prayer.

4. How did John's first wife die?
(a) From the measles.
(b) From tuberculosis.
(c) From a fall.
(d) In childbirth.

5. What did the tapestry in John's grandfather's church have written on it?
(a) "The Lord is My Shepherd."
(b) "The Lord Our God Is a Purifying Fire."
(c) "Remember the Sabbath Day."
(d) "Our Father in Heaven."

6. What kind of flowers does John's son and wife bring him?
(a) Roses.
(b) Violets.
(c) Snapdragons.
(d) Honeysuckles.

7. What two biblical characters does John's father compare the two of them to on their journey to Kansas?
(a) Cain and Abel.
(b) Adam and Eve.
(c) Jacob and Esau.
(d) Abraham and Isaac.

8. What letter does Boughton think should be excluded from the alphabet?
(a) R.
(b) O.
(c) M.
(d) L.

9. How did John break his finger when he was 22?
(a) Slamming a garden gate on it.
(b) Catching a fastball.
(c) Having a horse step on it.
(d) Sliding into second base.

10. In John's house, which he has lived in since being a small boy, what is in the home that was the same from his childhood?
(a) An old table and a pantry.
(b) A rocking chair.
(c) A woodstove.
(d) A pie safe.

11. When was John born?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1885.

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

13. What did John's father give him every time he learned five scripture verses and could repeat them without a mistake?
(a) A penny.
(b) A dime.
(c) A quarter.
(d) A nickel.

14. What causes the death of many soldiers and others all across the country at the end of WWI?
(a) The Swine flu.
(b) The Spanish flu.
(c) The bird flu.
(d) Tuberculosis.

15. What does John say "you never quite get used to"?
(a) The world at night.
(b) Questions about eternity.
(c) Growing old.
(d) The scrutiny of other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pathway in the abolitionist town become?

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

3. What is Theodore Dwight Weld Boughton's job?

4. According to John, why is a lawn sprinkler a magnificent invention?

5. What do the old men in John's church call his son?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 469 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample