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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 the woman at the mechanic's shop do for Zeke, Ruth, and Reverend Greene that is a small act of kindness?
(a) Gives them an umbrella.
(b) Makes them a meal.
(c) Gives them books to read.
(d) Makes them coffee.

2. Why was Zeke so happy when Horace said he wanted to run track?
(a) He was happy to see Horace doing something that would build his muscle.
(b) He was happy to see Horace doing something other than reading.
(c) He was happy to see Horace doing something that might win him a college scholarship.
(d) He was happy to see Horace doing something that would help him make friends.

3. What does Horace fleetingly think about the last apparition of the demon in the end of the section titled Holy Science?
(a) He thinks it means to guide him to find his long-lost mother.
(b) He thinks it may have been his salvation.
(c) He thinks it is there to kill him.
(d) He thinks it means to reunite him with his dead father.

4. Who does Jimmy offer to help up from a fall in the first part of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) Rose.
(b) Zeke.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Horace.

5. What does Reverend Greene think was part of Horace's reason for existing, in hindsight, as he describes it in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) To prove that his father was not really a bad man.
(b) To make a lot of money to bring back to the community.
(c) To have sons that would help on the Cross family farm and keep the family business going.
(d) For the salvation of his people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Jonnie Mae so upset that Horace has a new group of all-white friends?

3. What does Ruth do with the little girl in the mechanic's shop that seems to lighten her mood?

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

5. What does Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?

(see the answer key)

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