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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. How did Zeke feel about his father?
(a) He feared him.
(b) He hated him.
(c) He worshiped him.
(d) He resented him.

2. How did Zeke's father initially react to the news that Zeke was marrying his wife?
(a) He gave Zeke his blessing.
(b) He tried to convince Zeke to marry one of his cousins.
(c) He tried to convince Zeke to marry one of the neighbors.
(d) He tried to talk Zeke out of it.

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

4. Who stopped the fight between the two men over Amy Williams from Zeke's youth?
(a) Miss Rose Bailey.
(b) Miss Ruth Williams.
(c) Miss Ainsley Henry.
(d) Miss Lystra Edmunds.

5. What is unusual about Jimmy's favorite professor at seminary?
(a) He had converted to Christianity from Islam.
(b) He was a Christian Jew.
(c) He was much younger than the other professors.
(d) He was much older than the other professors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zeke feel he has to be especially polite to Jimmy in the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?

2. In the section titled April 30, 1984, 1:15 a.m., what does the demon tell Horace to kill?

3. What is the only book Zeke ever reads?

4. Who was one of the most recent reverends at Zeke's church that he thinks about on his way to visit Asa in the section titled Black Necromancy?

5. Who is Jimmy's wife?

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