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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What popular book does Lila "melt into"?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) Dust Be My Destiny.
(c) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
(d) Anne of Green Gables.

2. What did Jack Boughton call John?
(a) Brother Ames.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Reverend.
(d) Papa.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John's father die?

2. When John would come home and his grandfather was in the house in the midst of a vision, what would his mother tell him?

3. What does the doctor tell John to take a shot of every day?

4. Why does John's father say "I never did forgive myself" after the narrator's grandfather told him about shooting the Union soldier?

5. What letter does Boughton think should be excluded from the alphabet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John's brother, Edward.

2. What are John's thoughts upon hearing a waltz on the radio?

3. What are some of the key aspects of John's life that he recounts to his son?

4. What is the significance behind the story of the farmer who was murdered with a bowie knife, and what does that have to do with John's grandfather?

5. Briefly recount the story John's grandfather and his friends used to tell about the citizens of a little abolitionist town.

6. According to John, what are some of the strangest things about being in the ministry?

7. What is the story John's father tells him about John Brown's mule?

8. Why does John feel that his memories of fleeting incidents are so vivid to him?

9. Describe the moment of communion John experiences in the ruins of the burned-out church.

10. What are the basic facts about John's first marriage?

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