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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's friend John Anthony call him?
(a) The Great Black Hope.
(b) The Man of the Hour.
(c) The Miracle Worker.
(d) The Comeback Kid.

2. 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?
(a) Whether or not to preserve the last standing slave market.
(b) Whether or not to prosecute white police officers there for killing an unarmed black man.
(c) Whether or not to preserve the statue of a confederate general.
(d) Whether or not to prosecute a black man who had killed a white man in self-defense.

3. What significant historical period or event did Zeke's grandfather Ezra live through?
(a) The Revolutionary War.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

4. Who were the two men Zeke remembers fighting over Amy Williams in his youth?
(a) Cyrus and Cicero.
(b) Cicero and Cyril.
(c) Edmund and Henry.
(d) Cyrus and Cyril.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace begin to realize about the effects of being his grandfather's grandson as he gets older?

2. Who are Ruth, Zeke, and Jimmy visiting in the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?

3. What kind of animal does Horace settle on changing himself into?

4. Who was Zeke's wife?

5. What sport does Horace participate in?

(see the answer key)

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