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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 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 elevator gets stuck in a power outage.
(d) The door knocks into her, sending her falling.

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

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

4. What is the waitress's name who waits on Zeke, Ruth, and Jimmy in the section titled Old Demonology?
(a) Linda.
(b) Cristina.
(c) Anne.
(d) Sue.

5. Which reverend gives the blessing at the Cross's Thanksgiving dinner in 1983?
(a) Reverend Cross.
(b) Reverend Barden.
(c) Reverend Johnson.
(d) Reverend Greene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Reverend Jimmy Greene's grandmother?

2. What does Ruth silently ask God to do for Asa?

3. What do Ruth and Zeke talk about that breaks the tension and their streak of fighting in the section titled Old Demonology?

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

5. How could Ruth often tell if her husband Jethro came home drunk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the woman at the car repair shop do for Zeke, Ruth and Reverend Greene that lightens the tension and brightens their day?

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

3. What does Reverend Greene tell Horace in the section titled Holy Science about the problem Horace confides in him about?

4. In the section titled Old Demonology, what conclusion does Reverend Greene come to about the pressures Horace faced from his family?

5. What does Reverend Greene tell Zeke in the diner in the section Old Demonology that startles and disturbs Zeke?

6. What happens to Reverend Greene, Zeke, and Ruth on the way back from visiting Asa that adds more tension to their trip?

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

8. What does Ruth say in her silent prayer for Asa Cross in the section titled Holy Science?

9. How does Reverend Greene know that Ruth and Zeke have more or less made amends from their argument in the section titled Old Demonology?

10. Why is Ruth so upset to see Asa Cross, her late husband's cousin, so ill?

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