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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one thing Rose loves that her mother Jonnie Mae cannot understand?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) The North.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Painting.

2. What does Reverend Greene do as he leaves Ruth's house in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Hit his steering wheel hard in frustration.
(b) Hit a deer accidentally with his car.
(c) Cry.
(d) Scream.

3. What does Reverend Greene consider as he helps Ruth to bed in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Whether Ruth will ever see her children again.
(b) Whether he will be reunited with his wife in heaven.
(c) Whether he will have enough money for her care.
(d) The many ways in which things in all their lives could have been different.

4. What does Horace's and Gideon's science experiment involve in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Non-Newtonian liquids.
(b) Harmonics.
(c) Complicated chemistry.
(d) Mendelian properties.

5. How old was Rose when she disappeared from the family?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

6. What is Reverend Greene's middle name?
(a) John.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Michael.
(d) Malachai.

7. Where does Reverend Greene teach school during his first jobs?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Wake County Public Schools.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) The Bronx, New York.

8. Why is Ruth so resentful towards Reverend Jimmy Greene?
(a) Ruth has hard feelings towards Reverend Greene's grandmother, Jonnie Mae, who raised him.
(b) Ruth is mad at Reverend Greene because he will not give her communion because she is divorced.
(c) Ruth can never forgive Reverend Greene for Horace's death.
(d) Ruth has always thought Reverend Greene looks down upon her.

9. What comments does Asa's roommate make that unnerve the Crosses?
(a) She makes comments insinuating she would like to hurt Asa.
(b) She makes comments insinuating she might be thinking of taking her own life.
(c) She makes insensitive comments about being old and dying in a nursing home.
(d) She makes comments insinuating she thinks Ruth is a servant.

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

11. Why does Zeke say he pulled a gun on a white man once in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Because the white man had stolen from him.
(b) Because the white man had insulted his wife.
(c) Because the white man had not paid him for work he had done.
(d) Because the white man had insulted his son.

12. What does Reverend Greene's wife Anne die from?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Accidental drug overdose.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Cancer.

13. What always bothered Reverend Greene about Anne?
(a) Her self-contained ease.
(b) Her atheism.
(c) Her eating habits.
(d) Her mood swings.

14. In what year does Horace ask Jimmy Greene, the reverend, for advice on a serious matter that is troubling him?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1981.

15. What does Zeke ask the waitress about the hogs they use in their food in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Whether they are organic.
(b) Whether they kill them themselves.
(c) Whether they are halal.
(d) Whether they are from America or imported from foreign countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of moments does Reverend Greene recall from his time with his wife Anne in the beginning of the section titled Old Demonology?

2. What does Reverend Greene finally admit to himself in the section titled Old Demonology?

3. What does Horace do to Gideon in the locker room at school in the section titled Holy Science?

4. What does Zeke tell Reverend Greene it takes a right smart man to do in the section titled Old Demonology?

5. How many children did Jethro and Ruth have?

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