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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 comments does Asa's roommate make that unnerve the Crosses?
(a) She makes insensitive comments about being old and dying in a nursing home.
(b) She makes comments insinuating she would like to hurt Asa.
(c) She makes comments insinuating she might be thinking of taking her own life.
(d) She makes comments insinuating she thinks Ruth is a servant.

2. What was the name of Zeke's son who had died five years after his birth?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Michael.
(c) Horace.
(d) Thomas.

3. What two occasions does Rose return to North Carolina for after she leaves for the final time?
(a) The graduation of Reverend Jimmy Greene, her son, from the seminary.
(b) The funeral of her only daughter.
(c) The funeral of her only son.
(d) The funerals of her mother and father.

4. What startles Jimmy about Horace when Horace appears in the schoolyard behind Tims Creek Elementary on April 30, 1984?
(a) Horace is bleeding from a bullet wound.
(b) Horace is speaking gibberish, carrying a gun, and wearing only a coat.
(c) Horace has painted his face entirely with white paint.
(d) Horace has lost several teeth.

5. Who was Zeke Cross's father?
(a) Ezra Cross.
(b) Thomas Cross.
(c) Timothy Cross.
(d) Jethro Cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal does Horace settle on changing himself into?

2. What did Jethro say to Ruth the one time she remembers him expressing regret?

3. Why does Zeke say he pulled a gun on a white man once in the section titled Holy Science?

4. How many times does Horace perform the chant for his spell?

5. How could Ruth often tell if her husband Jethro came home drunk?

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