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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 44).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which work of William Gibson's does Kenan use a quote from in the very beginning of the book?
(a) Count Zero.
(b) Pattern Recognition.
(c) Peripheral.
(d) Neuromancer.
2. What kind of community event do Ruth and Zeke discuss in the car with Jimmy in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) A hog killing.
(b) A barn burning.
(c) A harvest festival.
(d) A tobacco-picking party.
3. What does the narrator lament about the changes in modern times compared to the hog-killing days?
(a) The supermarket sausages are not as good.
(b) People have lost the communal traditions and strong sense of community that hog killings fostered.
(c) No one really lives in the town anymore, so there are no children to teach traditional ways to.
(d) The children will not know how to kill and dress their own food.
4. What startles Jimmy about Horace when Horace appears in the schoolyard behind Tims Creek Elementary on April 30, 1984?
(a) Horace has painted his face entirely with white paint.
(b) Horace is bleeding from a bullet wound.
(c) Horace is speaking gibberish, carrying a gun, and wearing only a coat.
(d) Horace has lost several teeth.
5. 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 kitten he thinks he should have perhaps used a human baby.
(d) Instead of a feather, he should have used rabbit's fur.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Horace's friend John Anthony call him?
2. What is one of the sounds of creatures that Horace hears after he hears the voice for the first time in the section titled White Sorcery?
3. What Charles Dickens book does Kenan open the novel with a quote from?
4. Who is Jimmy's wife?
5. How does Jimmy's brother feel about his wife?
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