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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the little girl's name at the mechanic's shop?
(a) Rose.
(b) Micheline.
(c) Amy.
(d) Michelle.
2. What is Reverend Greene's middle name?
(a) John.
(b) Malachai.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Michael.
3. What comments does Asa's roommate make that unnerve the Crosses?
(a) She makes insensitive comments about being old and dying in a nursing home.
(b) She makes comments insinuating she would like to hurt Asa.
(c) She makes comments insinuating she thinks Ruth is a servant.
(d) She makes comments insinuating she might be thinking of taking her own life.
4. How are Asa Cross and Ruth Cross related?
(a) Asa is Ruth's brother.
(b) Asa is Ruth's ex-husband.
(c) Asa is Ruth's late husband's cousin.
(d) Asa is Ruth's uncle.
5. What does Zeke ask the waitress about the hogs they use in their food in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Whether they are halal.
(b) Whether they kill them themselves.
(c) Whether they are organic.
(d) Whether they are from America or imported from foreign countries.
6. What does Reverend Greene consider as he helps Ruth to bed in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Whether he will be reunited with his wife in heaven.
(b) Whether Ruth will ever see her children again.
(c) Whether he will have enough money for her care.
(d) The many ways in which things in all their lives could have been different.
7. What kinds of moments does Reverend Greene recall from his time with his wife Anne in the beginning of the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Sexually intimate moments.
(b) Times when they went on picnics.
(c) Various vacations they took together abroad.
(d) The painful medical visits they had when they were desperately trying to conceive a child.
8. Why does Zeke refuse to let Horace eat Thanksgiving dinner with the family in 1983?
(a) He has just pierced his ear.
(b) He has just gotten drunk and come home way after curfew.
(c) He has just stolen money from Zeke.
(d) He has just been caught kissing another boy.
9. What happens to Reverend Greene during his freshman year of college?
(a) He gets ill with cancer and is forced to drop out.
(b) He gets drunk often and almost flunks out of school.
(c) He is recruited for membership in a secret religious society.
(d) He studies hard and earns an extra scholarship.
10. Who does Horace have his first homosexual sexual experiences with?
(a) John Anthony.
(b) Gideon.
(c) Everett.
(d) Jimmy.
11. What does Reverend Greene tell Zeke he thinks about Zeke in the section titled Old Demonology, after Zeke argues with Ruth?
(a) That he thinks Zeke should take some blood pressure medication.
(b) That he thinks Zeke needs counseling.
(c) That he thinks Zeke should retire as a preacher.
(d) That he is ashamed of Zeke.
12. How many children did Jethro and Ruth have?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.
13. Who is Reverend Jimmy Greene's grandmother?
(a) Rachel Cross.
(b) Rose Cross.
(c) Amy Williams.
(d) Jonnie Mae Cross.
14. What two occasions does Rose return to North Carolina for after she leaves for the final time?
(a) The funerals of her mother and father.
(b) The graduation of Reverend Jimmy Greene, her son, from the seminary.
(c) The funeral of her only daughter.
(d) The funeral of her only son.
15. What does Horace's and Gideon's science experiment involve in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Complicated chemistry.
(b) Mendelian properties.
(c) Harmonics.
(d) Non-Newtonian liquids.
Short Answer Questions
1. What always bothered Reverend Greene about Anne?
2. Where does Reverend Greene teach school during his first jobs?
3. Who was Horace's biology teacher whose class he has a vision of in the section titled Holy Science?
4. Who was one of Horace's first girlfriends?
5. What is the one thing Rose loves that her mother Jonnie Mae cannot understand?
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