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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 107 - 168).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jethro say to Ruth the one time she remembers him expressing regret?
(a) He told her he should have allowed her to go back to work.
(b) He told her she should not have had so many children.
(c) He told her he wished her life did not have to be so hard and that he is not worthy of her.
(d) He told her he should have married his neighbor instead of her.

2. Who is one of Asa's daugthers?
(a) Jonnie Mae.
(b) Tisha Anne.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Rose.

3. Why is Ruth so resentful towards Reverend Jimmy Greene?
(a) Ruth is mad at Reverend Greene because he will not give her communion because she is divorced.
(b) Ruth can never forgive Reverend Greene for Horace's death.
(c) Ruth has always thought Reverend Greene looks down upon her.
(d) Ruth has hard feelings towards Reverend Greene's grandmother, Jonnie Mae, who raised him.

4. What does Horace begin to have second thoughts about having used in his spell at the end of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) Instead of a feather, he should have used rabbit's fur.
(b) Instead of a shark's tooth, he should have used a snake's fang.
(c) Instead of ashes he should have used charcoal.
(d) Instead of a kitten he thinks he should have perhaps used a human baby.

5. How many times does Horace perform the chant for his spell?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Jethro and Ruth have?

2. What was one major defining characteristic of Zeke's wife as he remembers her?

3. What does Horace fleetingly think about the last apparition of the demon in the end of the section titled Holy Science?

4. How does the family treat Rose when she returns in the section titled Holy Science?

5. What does the narrator lament about the changes in modern times compared to the hog-killing days?

(see the answer key)

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