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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Rose move when she leaves her hometown?
(a) The West Coast.
(b) The Midwest.
(c) The Southwest.
(d) The East Coast.

2. Which of Jonnie Mae's daughters never married?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Rose.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Rebecca.

3. What did Jethro say to Ruth the one time she remembers him expressing regret?
(a) He told her he wished her life did not have to be so hard and that he is not worthy of her.
(b) He told her she should not have had so many children.
(c) He told her he should have allowed her to go back to work.
(d) He told her he should have married his neighbor instead of her.

4. What does Ruth do with the little girl in the mechanic's shop that seems to lighten her mood?
(a) Plays a video game.
(b) Takes a nap.
(c) Has an ice cream.
(d) Reads a story.

5. What does Anne do that completely upends Reverend Greene's view of their marriage?
(a) She takes a new job without consulting with him.
(b) She sleeps with another woman.
(c) She sleeps with another man.
(d) She buys a house on her own.

6. Who is one of Asa's daugthers?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Jonnie Mae.
(c) Tisha Anne.
(d) Rose.

7. How could Ruth often tell if her husband Jethro came home drunk?
(a) She could hear him singing the same tune coming up the lane.
(b) She could hear him fighting with the neighbor.
(c) She could smell the liquor on him from feet away.
(d) She could hear him fumbling with and dropping his keys outside their door.

8. In what year did Jethro die?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1969.

9. What is one of the ramblings of Asa's roommate, an old, confused white woman?
(a) She is worried she is missing her niece's christening.
(b) She is worried she is missing a friend's funeral.
(c) She is worried she is missing church.
(d) She is worried about the running of her farm, which she remembers from her past.

10. What does Reverend Greene do as he leaves Ruth's house in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Hit a deer accidentally with his car.
(b) Hit his steering wheel hard in frustration.
(c) Cry.
(d) Scream.

11. Who chases Horace in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) The police.
(b) Zeke.
(c) Five young white men.
(d) Reverend Greene.

12. Where does Reverend Greene teach school during his first jobs?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Wake County Public Schools.
(c) The Bronx, New York.
(d) San Francisco.

13. When does Reverend Greene realize he hears the call to God?
(a) At his son's birth.
(b) At his best friend's sudden death.
(c) At his mother's funeral.
(d) At a revival meeting as a teenager.

14. What is the waitress's name who waits on Zeke, Ruth, and Jimmy in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Cristina.
(b) Sue.
(c) Anne.
(d) Linda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two occasions does Rose return to North Carolina for after she leaves for the final time?

2. Who is the one person who comforts Rose when she is upset at her mother's death?

3. What does Reverend Greene forget to do before he eats with Ruth and Zeke at the diner in the section titled Old Demonology?

4. Why is Ruth so resentful towards Reverend Jimmy Greene?

5. How many children did Jethro and Ruth have?

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