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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Horace ask Reverend Jimmy Greene for advice about that is troubling him in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Horace is troubled because he cheated on a test and he feels guilty.
(b) Horace is worried that he is gay.
(c) Horace is troubled because he stole money from his grandfather and he feels guilty.
(d) Horace is having trouble figuring out how to ask a girl on a date.

4. What is Reverend Greene's middle name?
(a) Matthew.
(b) John.
(c) Malachai.
(d) Michael.

5. Why does Gideon's father admonish his mother in front of Horace?
(a) For not offering him food.
(b) For using the word "hell."
(c) For offering him liquor.
(d) For not dressing for formally.

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

7. 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 should have allowed her to go back to work.
(d) He told her he wished her life did not have to be so hard and that he is not worthy of her.

8. What does Zeke tell Reverend Greene it takes a right smart man to do in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Empathize with someone.
(b) Forgive.
(c) Learn new things.
(d) Forget.

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

10. How could Ruth often tell if her husband Jethro came home drunk?
(a) She could hear him fighting with the neighbor.
(b) She could hear him singing the same tune coming up the lane.
(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.

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

12. What does Zeke ask the waitress about the hogs they use in their food in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Whether they are from America or imported from foreign countries.
(b) Whether they kill them themselves.
(c) Whether they are halal.
(d) Whether they are organic.

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

14. What does Ruth silently ask God to do for Asa?
(a) She asks God to put Asa's suffering on her instead.
(b) She asks God to end Asa's life sooner so he does not suffer as much.
(c) She asks God to make sure Asa is reunited with his beloved son in heaven.
(d) She asks God to cure Asa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ruth in the elevator of the nursing home while visiting Asa that sends her into a fit?

2. What is the waitress's name who waits on Zeke, Ruth, and Jimmy in the section titled Old Demonology?

3. What author does Kenan quote at the opening of the section titled Old Demonology?

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

5. What is the one thing Rose loves that her mother Jonnie Mae cannot understand?

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