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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the little girl's name at the mechanic's shop?
(a) Rose.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Micheline.
(d) Amy.

3. Where does Reverend Greene teach school during his first jobs?
(a) The Bronx, New York.
(b) Wake County Public Schools.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Chicago.

4. 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) Horace.
(c) The weather.
(d) The church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zeke refuse to let Horace eat Thanksgiving dinner with the family in 1983?

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

3. Where does the Cross family celebrate Thanksgiving in 1983?

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

5. What does the woman at the mechanic's shop do for Zeke, Ruth, and Reverend Greene that is a small act of kindness?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the section titled Old Demonology, what do Ruth's and Zeke's interactions with the waitress at the diner reveal?

2. What is Horace's family's reaction to seeing his earring at Thanksgiving dinner in the section Old Demonology?

3. What was Reverend Greene's relationship with his mother, Rose, like?

4. What bothers Reverend Greene about his understanding of his late wife Anne?

5. What circumstance brought Horace and Gideon together and eventually sparked their relationship?

6. What does Zeke accuse Ruth of doing to him and the rest of the Cross family in the section titled Old Demonology?

7. What does Reverend Greene admit about his life with his wife Anne before she passed away?

8. What uncomfortable events take place in the nursing home when Ruth, Zeke, and Reverend Greene visit Asa in the section titled Holy Science?

9. Why does Horace decide to try sports?

10. Where does Horace go with his demon in the section titled April 30, 1984, 2:40 a.m.?

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