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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 209 - 257).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horace's friend John Anthony call him?
(a) The Miracle Worker.
(b) The Man of the Hour.
(c) The Comeback Kid.
(d) The Great Black Hope.

2. Who is the clerical worker who always covers her typewriter before going home from the school Jimmy runs?
(a) Mrs. Jeyton.
(b) Mrs. Right.
(c) Mrs. Neary.
(d) Mrs. Just.

3. What project does Horace undertake with his Uncle Lester in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) They cut the neighbors' grass.
(b) They build a stone wall around the Cross property.
(c) They paint their relatives' houses.
(d) They begin clearing the forest for more farmland.

4. What do Ruth and Zeke talk about that breaks the tension and their streak of fighting in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) The church.
(b) Horace.
(c) The weather.
(d) Hog killing.

5. What kind of community event do Ruth and Zeke discuss in the car with Jimmy in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) A harvest festival.
(b) A barn burning.
(c) A tobacco-picking party.
(d) A hog killing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Jethro and Ruth have?

2. What does Ruth silently ask God to do for Asa?

3. Where does Rose move when she leaves her hometown?

4. How has work changed, in Kenan's telling of it, since the time of tobacco-picking?

5. Where does Horace have sex with his partner from the Crosstown Theater during the summer he worked at the theater?

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