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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 fumbling with and dropping his keys outside their door.
(c) She could smell the liquor on him from feet away.
(d) She could hear him fighting with the neighbor.

2. 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) Scream.
(c) Cry.
(d) Hit his steering wheel hard in frustration.

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

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

5. Who was one of Horace's first girlfriends?
(a) Melissa Maynard.
(b) Gracie Mae Mayfield.
(c) Amy Williams.
(d) Rose Herlands.

6. What happens to Reverend Greene during his freshman year of college?
(a) He gets drunk often and almost flunks out of school.
(b) He studies hard and earns an extra scholarship.
(c) He gets ill with cancer and is forced to drop out.
(d) He is recruited for membership in a secret religious society.

7. How old was Reverend Greene when he was baptized?
(a) 13.
(b) 8.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

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

9. Who is Reverend Jimmy Greene's grandmother?
(a) Rachel Cross.
(b) Rose Cross.
(c) Jonnie Mae Cross.
(d) Amy Williams.

10. 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 are organic.
(c) Whether they are from America or imported from foreign countries.
(d) Whether they kill them themselves.

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

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

13. How are Asa Cross and Ruth Cross related?
(a) Asa is Ruth's uncle.
(b) Asa is Ruth's ex-husband.
(c) Asa is Ruth's brother.
(d) Asa is Ruth's late husband's cousin.

14. Why is Jonnie Mae so upset that Horace has a new group of all-white friends?
(a) She thinks they will eventually physically harm him.
(b) She thinks they are using him to commit crimes.
(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.

15. What happens to Ruth in the elevator of the nursing home while visiting Asa that sends her into a fit?
(a) The elevator gets stuck in a power outage.
(b) The air conditioning clicks off in the elevator, leaving it sweltering.
(c) The elevator cable cuts loose, sending her plummeting down the shaft.
(d) The door knocks into her, sending her falling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Reverend Greene teach school during his first jobs?

2. Which reverend gives the blessing at the Cross's Thanksgiving dinner in 1983?

3. What does Reverend Greene consider as he helps Ruth to bed in the section titled Old Demonology?

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

5. What does Horace fleetingly think about the last apparition of the demon in the end of the section titled Holy Science?

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