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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 133 - 174).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator of The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks eventually open his own restaurant?
(a) New York City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Houston.
(d) California.

2. What was the narrator's mother's career?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Accountancy.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

3. What does Uncle Pharaoh say when Mandy tells him about the man in the river?
(a) He says they should leave camp now.
(b) He says the creek answered his prayer to send a friend.
(c) He says they should ask the man how to get out of the woods.
(d) He says that is inpossible.

4. Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Zadie Smith.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Toni Morrison.

5. Why did Howard Hughes come to Tim's Creek, according to the narrator's mother?
(a) To try to find out what happened to her brother.
(b) To ask her to cook for him.
(c) To explain a lawsuit to her.
(d) To apologize for firing her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lazarus have an altercation with J.C. Stokes?

2. Who did Randall's editor once work for in Japan after the war?

3. How many miracles did Christ perform, depending on which scholars you ask?

4. Who once owned most of the area Randall's house is built on?

5. Who owned the motel Howard Hughes bought in 1966?

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