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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jack's mother comfort him and his sibling?
(a) By telling them the accident was not their fault.
(b) By taking them on long drives.
(c) By embracing them and giving constant praise and reassurance.
(d) By reading the Bible to them nightly.

2. What is Jack indignant about when he is in the kitchen?
(a) HIs mother is eating again.
(b) He is the only one working this hard.
(c) Everyone pretending eveything is ok.
(d) Everyone talking too loudly.

3. What does Jack do to try and block out the raging in his head?
(a) He waves his hands at the sky.
(b) He stomps his feet and screams.
(c) He pounds his fist on his head.
(d) He grinds his teeth.

4. How does Jack come to feel about his raging on the tractor?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Proud.
(c) Hopeful of becoming an actor.
(d) Happy that he is so much like his father.

5. Where does Jack sometimes find his father after the accident?
(a) Lyning in the hammock in the back field.
(b) Lying on the couch watching tv.
(c) Lying on the cow-barn floor crying.
(d) Lying in bed drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the character who accidentally kills the child?

2. What kinds of things does Jack's mother insist her children do?

3. What does Jack bring with him each night when he returns from milking the cows?

4. What does Dale say to Jack as he is standing at the door?

5. When Jack enters his home after riding the tractor home in the thunderstorm, how does he behave?

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