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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. 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 apologize for firing her mother.
(c) To explain a lawsuit to her.
(d) To ask her to cook for him.

2. What is the narrator doing with his mother when she first tells him about Howard Hughes's visit to Tim's Creek?
(a) Pulling weeds in the garden.
(b) Shucking corn.
(c) Cooking grits.
(d) Going to the doctor.

3. Which company owned all of Hughes's real estate?
(a) Sky Holdings.
(b) Summa Corporation.
(c) Mission Stated.
(d) February Summer.

4. How does the narrator's mother react when he tells her he is going to pursue a career in the culinary arts, in The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks?
(a) She is suspicious.
(b) She is indifferent.
(c) She is apparently relieved.
(d) She is angry.

5. Why does Lazarus have an altercation with J.C. Stokes?
(a) Stokes broke into Lazarus's home.
(b) Stokes hit Lazarus first.
(c) Stokes is having an affair with Lazarus's wife.
(d) Stokes stole some money from Lazarus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gloria Brown very good at?

2. What does the music star say when Ed asks how he knew Ed played guitar?

3. What happens to the stranger from the grocery store parking lot in the third ending?

4. What is the name of Reverend Spike Eggleston's church?

5. Who had been the rock of Cicero's family?

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