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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why was Zeke so angry at Horace during the time period when Horace was working at the theater?

3. Who was Zeke's wife?

4. Who is Jimmy's wife?

5. Whose car does Horace steal at the end of the section titled Black Necromancy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Horace first become aware of what he feels is another presence after he performs his spell?

2. What particular part of Horace's spell to transform himself into an animal does he struggle with morally?

3. What significant historical event did Zeke's grandfather, Ezra, live through?

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

5. Why is Reverend Greene extremely alarmed when he meets Horace in the woods early in the morning on April, 30, 1984?

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

7. What is the illness that Asa Cross is dying from?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring how Reverend Jimmy Greene's discovery of his wife Anne's marital infidelity affects his perceptions of, and faith in, God, citing specific references to the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

In the section titled Old Demonology, what does Horace's family's reaction to his ear piercing at Thanksgiving dinner reveal about the older generation's misgivings about white people? Why is Horace's family so upset that he is friends with a group of white boys his own age from school? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

In Horace's final narrated section of the book, in the section titled Old Gods, New Demons, Horace remembers in graphic detail watching his grandfather kill chickens. How does this memory, and its imagery, relate to Horace's own suicide? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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