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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 music is playing on the radio that causes John to want to dance?
(a) The Lindy Hop.
(b) The quickstep.
(c) A waltz.
(d) The foxtrot.

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

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

4. While wandering in Kansas, what does John's father tell him that he saw coming through the doors of his father's church?
(a) Union soldiers.
(b) John Brown's horse.
(c) John Brown.
(d) John Brown's mule.

5. Where did John's father take him when he was twelve?
(a) To the family's ancestral home in Maine.
(b) To Des Moines.
(c) To Topeka.
(d) To the grave of his grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John's father die?

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

3. Who does John feel that his son is very much like?

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

5. According to John, visions sometimes only come under what circumstances?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are John's thoughts on the Lord's Supper? How does his son figure into this account?

2. 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?

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

4. What does John learn about his grandfather and his encounter with a Union soldier?

5. Describe how John learned scripture.

6. What are some of John's impressions of Tobias and his son?

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

8. Describe some of the events John and his father faced in their journey to Kansas.

9. What three things does seeing Jack playing catch with John's son remind him of?

10. Describe John's brother, Edward.

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