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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Jonnie Mae so upset that Horace has a new group of all-white friends?
(a) She thinks they are using him to commit crimes.
(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 actually just making fun of him and will hurt his feelings, humiliating him.

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

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

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

6. How old was Rose when she disappeared from the family?
(a) 16.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

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

8. 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.

9. Who does Horace have his first homosexual sexual experiences with?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Everett.
(c) Gideon.
(d) John Anthony.

10. Why is the Cross family upset at the start of Thanksgiving dinner in 1983?
(a) They have just lost their family matriarch, Retha.
(b) The turkey has burned.
(c) The reverend is sick so he can not be there.
(d) Horace is late.

11. What does Reverend Greene think was part of Horace's reason for existing, in hindsight, as he describes it in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) To prove that his father was not really a bad man.
(b) To have sons that would help on the Cross family farm and keep the family business going.
(c) To make a lot of money to bring back to the community.
(d) For the salvation of his people.

12. Who was the oldest of Ezra Cross's children?
(a) James.
(b) Ezekiel.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Luke.

13. What project does Horace undertake with his Uncle Lester in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) They cut the neighbors' grass.
(b) They begin clearing the forest for more farmland.
(c) They build a stone wall around the Cross property.
(d) They paint their relatives' houses.

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

15. 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 she should not have had so many children.
(c) He told her he wished her life did not have to be so hard and that he is not worthy of her.
(d) He told her he should have allowed her to go back to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Horace ask Jimmy Greene, the reverend, for advice on a serious matter that is troubling him?

2. How old was Reverend Greene when he was baptized?

3. What does Horace ask Reverend Jimmy Greene in the section titled Holy Science that takes Reverend Greene aback?

4. How does the family treat Rose when she returns in the section titled Holy Science?

5. Who was Horace's biology teacher whose class he has a vision of in the section titled Holy Science?

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