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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jack's reputation?
(a) A man of excellent character.
(b) A cheerful, optimistic encourager.
(c) A grouchy, uncommunicative jerk.
(d) A reputation for immoral behavior.

2. After dinner, what do most of the men and women do?
(a) Go into town to a dance.
(b) Go home and go to sleep.
(c) Go back to the fields to continue working.
(d) Drink whiskey.

3. In Jack's memory of the mules, how old is Mat?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

4. What role did Nancy play in Jack's life?
(a) She guided him in running the farm.
(b) She was his tutor since he couldn't attend school.
(c) She acted as a substitute mother to him.
(d) She reminded him all of the things he did wrong with his life.

5. What does Jack remember about what occurred on the day after the mules arrived?
(a) Jack, Ben, and Mat went for a ride in the countryside.
(b) One of the mules died.
(c) Jack and Ben went for a ride into town.
(d) Ben and Mat got in a fight.

6. What occurs at the end of Jack memory at the beginning of the book?
(a) He is brought back to the present with disappointment.
(b) He realizes that he is happy the past is behind him.
(c) A friend he hasn't seen in 30 years arrives at his house.
(d) He starts to cry.

7. How does Jack remember himself as a young man?
(a) Confident, in control of his life, and the world is his for the taking.
(b) Arrogant and obnoxious.
(c) Withdrawn and uncommunicative.
(d) No self-esteen.

8. When his memory at the beginning of the book is over, where does Jack go?
(a) Jasper Lathrope's store.
(b) Inside his house.
(c) Nancy's house.
(d) Ben Felter's store.

9. What happened to Hannah Coulter's first husband?
(a) Died during World War I.
(b) Died of typhoid fever.
(c) Left her for another woman.
(d) Died during World War II.

10. What is Jack's wife doing after their son is born?
(a) Praying.
(b) Crying.
(c) Pretending to sleep because Jack has come into the room.
(d) Talking to her daughter.

11. What is the name of Hannah Coulter's first husband?
(a) Virgil Coulter.
(b) Nathan Feltner.
(c) Virgil Feltner.
(d) Nathan Coulter.

12. How old is Mat Felter as he watches Jack staring wistfully on his porch?
(a) 69.
(b) 25.
(c) 51.
(d) 40.

13. What did Jack do during his time off?
(a) Listen to the radio.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Read.
(d) Go to a dance or social gathering.

14. Who visited Jack the day after he brought the mules home?
(a) Mat Felter.
(b) Nancy and Mat Felter.
(c) Ben Felter and Mat.
(d) Ben, Nancy and Mat Felter.

15. Why does Hannah Coulter consider her family's life a work in progress?
(a) They keep having setbacks.
(b) She keeps having babies.
(c) Their plans come to fruition as time and money allow.
(d) They don't have enough workers to help them keep up with the farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jack feel about the mules?

2. How does Jack feel about all of the reminiscing that he does?

3. What time of the week did Jack take off from working?

4. As the novel opens, what is Jack's age?

5. How did Ruth feel about Jack doing all of the dirty tasks around the farm?

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