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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 does Horace begin to realize about the effects of being his grandfather's grandson as he gets older?
(a) Horace's grandfather can pull strings with politicians, so people try to get Horace to put in a good word for them with his grandfather.
(b) A lot of people owe his grandfather money, so they are especially nice to Horace.
(c) Horace's grandfather has been nasty to many people, so people treat Horace badly.
(d) His grandfather is respected in the community, so people treat Horace better than they would many other kids his age.

2. Why is Zeke physically uncomfortable in the car in the beginning of the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?
(a) His throat is very sore.
(b) He has to go to the bathroom badly.
(c) His arthritis is bothering him.
(d) His hands are chronically cold.

3. Where does the Cross family celebrate Thanksgiving in 1983?
(a) At a local diner.
(b) At Zeke's house.
(c) At Jonnie Mae's house.
(d) At Rose's house.

4. What is there controversy about in the town of Fayetteville that Zeke ruminates on as Jimmy drives him to the nursing home in the section titled Black Necromancy?
(a) Whether or not to preserve the statue of a confederate general.
(b) Whether or not to preserve the last standing slave market.
(c) Whether or not to prosecute white police officers there for killing an unarmed black man.
(d) Whether or not to prosecute a black man who had killed a white man in self-defense.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Horace ask Jimmy Greene, the reverend, for advice on a serious matter that is troubling him?

2. Who was the "prettiest" boy in Horace's class?

3. What was the name of Zeke's son who had died five years after his birth?

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?

5. Who is Reverend Jimmy Greene's grandmother?

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