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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 103).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horace begin to have second thoughts about having used in his spell at the end of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) Instead of ashes he should have used charcoal.
(b) Instead of a shark's tooth, he should have used a snake's fang.
(c) Instead of a feather, he should have used rabbit's fur.
(d) Instead of a kitten he thinks he should have perhaps used a human baby.

2. What startles Jimmy about Horace when Horace appears in the schoolyard behind Tims Creek Elementary on April 30, 1984?
(a) Horace has lost several teeth.
(b) Horace has painted his face entirely with white paint.
(c) Horace is bleeding from a bullet wound.
(d) Horace is speaking gibberish, carrying a gun, and wearing only a coat.

3. Why was Zeke so angry at Horace during the time period when Horace was working at the theater?
(a) Horace told Zeke he wanted to be an actor, which Zeke did not approve of.
(b) Horace came home way past his curfew and drunk.
(c) Horace told Zeke he did not want to be a preacher, which Zeke had wanted him to be.
(d) Horace told Zeke he thought he might be gay.

4. What kind of community event do Ruth and Zeke discuss in the car with Jimmy in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) A harvest festival.
(b) A tobacco-picking party.
(c) A barn burning.
(d) A hog killing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stopped the fight between the two men over Amy Williams from Zeke's youth?

2. Who tells Horace that his grandmother has died?

3. What does Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?

4. Which work of William Gibson's does Kenan use a quote from in the very beginning of the book?

5. What does the demon tell Horace to do to Reverend Barden in the section Black Necromancy?

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