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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. Why does Gideon's father admonish his mother in front of Horace?
(a) For not offering him food.
(b) For using the word "hell."
(c) For offering him liquor.
(d) For not dressing for formally.

2. What does Horace's friend John Anthony call him?
(a) The Man of the Hour.
(b) The Comeback Kid.
(c) The Great Black Hope.
(d) The Miracle Worker.

3. What does Reverend Greene forget to do before he eats with Ruth and Zeke at the diner in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Ask the others if they would also like to order.
(b) Bless the food.
(c) Take his diabetes medication.
(d) Wash his hands.

4. What did the older men teach the young boys to do on a hog killing day?
(a) Shoot a hog.
(b) Dress a hog.
(c) Make sausages.
(d) Calm a hog.

5. What does Horace's and Gideon's science experiment involve in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Complicated chemistry.
(b) Mendelian properties.
(c) Non-Newtonian liquids.
(d) Harmonics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Reverend Greene during his freshman year of college?

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

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

4. When does Reverend Greene realize he hears the call to God?

5. What writer does Kenan begin the section titled Holy Science with a quote from?

(see the answer key)

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