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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jack's mother's support system after the accident?
(a) Reading and writing poetry.
(b) She does not have one.
(c) Eating and watching television alone.
(d) Her many close, religious friends who visit often and care for her.

2. What does Jack finally contemplate while riding on the tractor telling his stories?
(a) Suicide.
(b) College.
(c) Murder.
(d) Escape.

3. How does the narrator describe Jack's father before the accident?
(a) A faithful husband and a fair minded, genial farmer.
(b) A gentle but stupid farmer.
(c) A reckless man with little control over his family.
(d) An unfatihful husband and a bad neighbor.

4. What is one habit Jack's father takes up after the accident?
(a) Chain smoking Lucky Strikes.
(b) Drinking beer all day.
(c) Eating constantly.
(d) Talking in his sleep.

5. In the opening of the story, who dies in April?
(a) Daniel Hawthorne.
(b) John Hawthorne.
(c) David Hawthorne.
(d) Dale Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jack come to feel about his raging on the tractor?

2. In Dale's story, whose skull is Lord Byron trying to make into a drinking cup?

3. Who does Jack's father blame for his son's death?

4. For what does Jack's father often abandon his wife and children?

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

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