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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 is the one thing Rose loves that her mother Jonnie Mae cannot understand?
(a) Painting.
(b) Cooking.
(c) The North.
(d) Pleasure.

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

3. Which of Jonnie Mae's daughters never married?
(a) Rose.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Rebecca.

4. 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 studies hard and earns an extra scholarship.
(c) He gets drunk often and almost flunks out of school.
(d) He is recruited for membership in a secret religious society.

5. What does Horace fleetingly think about the last apparition of the demon in the end of the section titled Holy Science?
(a) He thinks it may have been his salvation.
(b) He thinks it means to reunite him with his dead father.
(c) He thinks it is there to kill him.
(d) He thinks it means to guide him to find his long-lost mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zeke ask the waitress about the hogs they use in their food in the section titled Old Demonology?

2. What does Zeke tell Reverend Greene it takes a right smart man to do in the section titled Old Demonology?

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

4. What always bothered Reverend Greene about Anne?

5. How old was Reverend Greene when he was baptized?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Anne do that shakes the foundation of her marriage with Reverend Greene?

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

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

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

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

8. What is Zeke known for in the community that serves as a bridge from the past to the future?

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

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

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