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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 209 - 257).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horace tell Everett Church Harrington IV that he immediately regrets?
(a) That Horace wants to move to New York to be an actor like Everett.
(b) That Horace will tell the whole town Everett is gay.
(c) That Everett is a terrible actor.
(d) That Horace is in love with him.

2. What was the first car Zeke ever saw?
(a) A Mustang.
(b) A Studebaker.
(c) A Ford F-150.
(d) A Model A Ford.

3. Which companies had contributed funds to the building of the Crosstown Theater?
(a) Southern American Oil Company and the First American Mercantile National Bank.
(b) Northern Suffolk Rail and the Median Division.
(c) Coca-Cola and the National Endowment for the Arts.
(d) Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods.

4. Who chases Horace in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) The police.
(b) Five young white men.
(c) Zeke.
(d) Reverend Greene.

5. What was one of the women's jobs during a hog killing?
(a) To slit the hog's throat.
(b) To keep the children occupied.
(c) To clean and prepare the intestines for sausages.
(d) To roast the pig on a spit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gideon's father admonish his mother in front of Horace?

2. Who tells Horace that his grandmother has died?

3. Where does the Cross family celebrate Thanksgiving in 1983?

4. What does Anne do that completely upends Reverend Greene's view of their marriage?

5. How has work changed, in Kenan's telling of it, since the time of tobacco-picking?

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