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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 171 - 208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What significant historical period or event did Zeke's grandfather Ezra live through?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) The War of 1812.
(c) The Civil Rights Movement.
(d) Emancipation.

2. Why does Gideon's father admonish his mother in front of Horace?
(a) For offering him liquor.
(b) For not offering him food.
(c) For not dressing for formally.
(d) For using the word "hell."

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

4. How could Ruth often tell if her husband Jethro came home drunk?
(a) She could hear him fighting with the neighbor.
(b) She could smell the liquor on him from feet away.
(c) She could hear him singing the same tune coming up the lane.
(d) She could hear him fumbling with and dropping his keys outside their door.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ruth in the elevator of the nursing home while visiting Asa that sends her into a fit?

2. What happens to Reverend Greene during his freshman year of college?

3. Why does Zeke feel he has to be especially polite to Jimmy in the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?

4. Why is Zeke physically uncomfortable in the car in the beginning of the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?

5. What does Reverend Greene tell Zeke he thinks about Zeke in the section titled Old Demonology, after Zeke argues with Ruth?

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