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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 there controversy about in the town of Fayetteville that Zeke ruminates on as Jimmy drives him to the nursing home in the section titled Black Necromancy?
(a) Whether or not to prosecute a black man who had killed a white man in self-defense.
(b) Whether or not to preserve the statue of a confederate general.
(c) Whether or not to preserve the last standing slave market.
(d) Whether or not to prosecute white police officers there for killing an unarmed black man.

2. Who does Horace live with in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) His father Samuel.
(b) His grandfather, Zeke.
(c) His cousin Ann.
(d) His grandmother Retha.

3. About how old was Zeke when he helped his father build their house?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 20.
(d) 4.

4. In what year does Kenan set the first part of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1981.

5. Who is Jimmy's wife?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Carolyn.
(d) Anne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace begin to realize about the effects of being his grandfather's grandson as he gets older?

2. Who was one of the most recent reverends at Zeke's church that he thinks about on his way to visit Asa in the section titled Black Necromancy?

3. Who was Jimmy's grandmother?

4. What is the first thing the voice says to Horace in the section titled White Sorcery?

5. What is the name of Horace's elementary school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Reverend Greene's wife, Anne, say she wants to stay in the South?

2. What format does Reverend Greene's conversation with Horace beginning on page 40 take?

3. What is Zeke's relationship with his sister-in-law Ruth like?

4. What kinds of books does Horace like, judging from how he has decorated his bedroom at home?

5. How does Zeke feel about his own father, Thomas Cross?

6. What does the demon ask Horace to do in the church in the section titled April 30, 1985, 1:15 a.m., and why is this significant?

7. What are some of Horace's interests that converge to lead him to try casting a spell?

8. What kind of a student and child is Horace Cross before he performs his spell?

9. What historical structure in Fayetteville causes controversy over whether or not it should be removed?

10. What is a main driving force in Horace's grandfather Zeke's life?

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