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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. Why does Zeke say he pulled a gun on a white man once in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Because the white man had insulted his wife.
(b) Because the white man had not paid him for work he had done.
(c) Because the white man had insulted his son.
(d) Because the white man had stolen from him.

2. How did Zeke feel about his father?
(a) He hated him.
(b) He resented him.
(c) He worshiped him.
(d) He feared him.

3. 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 prosecute a black man who had killed a white man in self-defense.
(b) Whether or not to preserve the statue of a confederate general.
(c) Whether or not to prosecute white police officers there for killing an unarmed black man.
(d) Whether or not to preserve the last standing slave market.

4. What does Horace ask Reverend Jimmy Greene for advice about that is troubling him in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Horace is having trouble figuring out how to ask a girl on a date.
(b) Horace is worried that he is gay.
(c) Horace is troubled because he cheated on a test and he feels guilty.
(d) Horace is troubled because he stole money from his grandfather and he feels guilty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the clerical worker who always covers her typewriter before going home from the school Jimmy runs?

3. Why does Jimmy's favorite professor tell him he will make a great preacher?

4. Which of Jonnie Mae's daughters never married?

5. Who was Horace's father?

(see the answer key)

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