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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 Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?
(a) Successful matchmaking.
(b) Weather prediction.
(c) Seeing into the future.
(d) Predicting tragedies.

2. What does the Reverend Barden do to Horace during Horace's vision in the section Black Necromancy?
(a) Baptizes him.
(b) Marks his forehead with ashes.
(c) Puts him in a coffin.
(d) Cuts his arm.

3. 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 a feather, he should have used rabbit's fur.
(b) Instead of ashes he should have used charcoal.
(c) Instead of a shark's tooth, he should have used a snake's fang.
(d) Instead of a kitten he thinks he should have perhaps used a human baby.

4. Who tells Horace that his grandmother has died?
(a) His father Samuel.
(b) His grandfather Zeke.
(c) His mother Rose.
(d) His aunts Ruth, Rachel, and Rebecca.

5. 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 told Zeke he did not want to be a preacher, which Zeke had wanted him to be.
(c) Horace came home way past his curfew and drunk.
(d) Horace told Zeke he thought he might be gay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace use in his transformation spell in place of the "babe"?

2. Why was Zeke so happy when Horace said he wanted to run track?

3. What kind of disposition did Thomas Cross have?

4. Who was Zeke's wife?

5. Who was the "prettiest" boy in Horace's class?

(see the answer key)

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