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

2. What always bothered Reverend Greene about Anne?
(a) Her eating habits.
(b) Her mood swings.
(c) Her self-contained ease.
(d) Her atheism.

3. Why is Jonnie Mae so upset that Horace has a new group of all-white friends?
(a) She thinks they are actually just making fun of him and will hurt his feelings, humiliating him.
(b) She thinks they will eventually physically harm him.
(c) She thinks they will lead him astray and that it is dangerous for him to be spending time with them.
(d) She thinks they are using him to commit crimes.

4. What is the full name of the Crosstown Theater?
(a) The Owen Oliver Cross Memorial Outdoor Theater.
(b) The Oliver Wendell Holmes Cross Memorial Outdoor Theater.
(c) The Ezekiel Wheel Cross Theater.
(d) The Crosstown-Haines Memorial Theater.

5. Which work of William Gibson's does Kenan use a quote from in the very beginning of the book?
(a) Neuromancer.
(b) Peripheral.
(c) Count Zero.
(d) Pattern Recognition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace remember his grandmother doing to the chickens?

2. How has work changed, in Kenan's telling of it, since the time of tobacco-picking?

3. How many children did Jethro and Ruth have?

4. What is one of Horace's positive memories of his aunts from his elementary school years?

5. What is the only book Zeke ever reads?

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