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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 107 - 168).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the women always do as they worked on a hog killing day?
(a) Clean the guns.
(b) Clean the knives.
(c) Tend to the garden.
(d) Talk and gossip constantly.

2. Who was one of Jimmy's favorite professors at seminary?
(a) Jacob Laurie.
(b) Ryan McHenry.
(c) Philip Schnider.
(d) James Zogby.

3. Who does Jimmy offer to help up from a fall in the first part of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) Rose.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Zeke.
(d) Horace.

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

5. What kind of animal does Horace settle on changing himself into?
(a) A lion.
(b) A red-tailed hawk.
(c) A leopard.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer 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?

2. What two occasions does Rose return to North Carolina for after she leaves for the final time?

3. What did Jethro say to Ruth the one time she remembers him expressing regret?

4. Who was the oldest of Ezra Cross's children?

5. What does the narrator lament about the changes in modern times compared to the hog-killing days?

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