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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the one person who comforts Rose when she is upset at her mother's death?
(a) Zeke.
(b) Reverend Greene.
(c) Lester.
(d) Thomas.

2. Why does Zeke refuse to let Horace eat Thanksgiving dinner with the family in 1983?
(a) He has just been caught kissing another boy.
(b) He has just stolen money from Zeke.
(c) He has just pierced his ear.
(d) He has just gotten drunk and come home way after curfew.

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 may have been his salvation.
(b) He thinks it means to guide him to find his long-lost mother.
(c) He thinks it is there to kill him.
(d) He thinks it means to reunite him with his dead father.

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

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

6. 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 books to read.
(b) Makes them a meal.
(c) Makes them coffee.
(d) Gives them an umbrella.

7. What does Horace ask Reverend Jimmy Greene in the section titled Holy Science that takes Reverend Greene aback?
(a) He asks Reverend Greene if he enjoyed sexual experiences he had with men.
(b) He asks Reverend Greene to help him pay for college.
(c) He asks Reverend Greene if he would ever perform a gay marriage ceremony.
(d) He asks Reverend Greene to help him enroll in culinary school.

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

9. When does Revered Greene meet his wife?
(a) In high school.
(b) During his first job right out of college.
(c) In elementary school.
(d) During the second half of his sophomore year of college.

10. Where does the Cross family celebrate Thanksgiving in 1983?
(a) At Rose's house.
(b) At a local diner.
(c) At Zeke's house.
(d) At Jonnie Mae's house.

11. What kind of car does Reverend Greene drive?
(a) A Honda.
(b) A Hyundai.
(c) An Oldsmobile.
(d) A Ford.

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

13. Which reverend gives the blessing at the Cross's Thanksgiving dinner in 1983?
(a) Reverend Cross.
(b) Reverend Greene.
(c) Reverend Johnson.
(d) Reverend Barden.

14. In what year does Horace ask Jimmy Greene, the reverend, for advice on a serious matter that is troubling him?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1985.

15. What do Ruth and Zeke talk about that breaks the tension and their streak of fighting in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Horace.
(b) The weather.
(c) Hog killing.
(d) The church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Reverend Greene's wife's full maiden name?

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

3. What is the little girl's name at the mechanic's shop?

4. Where does Rose move when she leaves her hometown?

5. Why does Gideon's father admonish his mother in front of Horace?

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