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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. What sport does Horace participate in?
(a) Track.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Lacrosse.

2. 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.

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

4. 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 harvest festival.
(c) A barn burning.
(d) A tobacco-picking party.

5. What does Horace attempt to summon with his spell?
(a) A demon.
(b) A fairy godmother.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) A god.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Charles Dickens book does Kenan open the novel with a quote from?

2. What is the first thing the voice says to Horace in the section titled White Sorcery?

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

4. What does Horace substitute in his transformation spell in place of a sea monster's tooth?

5. What is the only book Zeke ever reads?

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