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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. What did Ruthester make extra of for Horace because he liked them?
(a) Chocolate chip cookies.
(b) Ice box rolls.
(c) Sausages.
(d) Pig feet.

2. Which companies had contributed funds to the building of the Crosstown Theater?
(a) Northern Suffolk Rail and the Median Division.
(b) Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods.
(c) Coca-Cola and the National Endowment for the Arts.
(d) Southern American Oil Company and the First American Mercantile National Bank.

3. Who is Gideon's mother?
(a) Dahlia.
(b) Rose.
(c) Viola.
(d) Hyacinth.

4. Why is Zeke physically uncomfortable in the car in the beginning of the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?
(a) His throat is very sore.
(b) He has to go to the bathroom badly.
(c) His arthritis is bothering him.
(d) His hands are chronically cold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the demon in the section titled April 30, 1984, 4:45 a.m.?

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

3. What is the one thing Rose loves that her mother Jonnie Mae cannot understand?

4. 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?

5. What are some of the ambitions Horace talks about with his white friends?

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