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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 107 - 168).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horace fleetingly think about the last apparition of the demon in the end of the section titled Holy Science?
(a) He thinks it means to guide him to find his long-lost mother.
(b) He thinks it may have been his salvation.
(c) He thinks it is there to kill him.
(d) He thinks it means to reunite him with his dead father.

2. What did Jethro say to Ruth the one time she remembers him expressing regret?
(a) He told her he should have allowed her to go back to work.
(b) He told her he should have married his neighbor instead of her.
(c) He told her she should not have had so many children.
(d) He told her he wished her life did not have to be so hard and that he is not worthy of her.

3. Who is Gideon's mother?
(a) Viola.
(b) Hyacinth.
(c) Dahlia.
(d) Rose.

4. Who was one of the most recent reverends at Zeke's church that he thinks about on his way to visit Asa in the section titled Black Necromancy?
(a) Reverend Barden.
(b) Reverend Smith.
(c) Reverend Johnson.
(d) Reverend Sounderland.

5. What does Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?
(a) Seeing into the future.
(b) Successful matchmaking.
(c) Predicting tragedies.
(d) Weather prediction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the oldest of Ezra Cross's children?

2. What does the narrator lament about the changes in modern times compared to the hog-killing days?

3. What project does Horace undertake with his Uncle Lester in the section titled Holy Science?

4. What is the name of Horace's elementary school?

5. Who were the two men Zeke remembers fighting over Amy Williams in his youth?

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