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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 was one of the women's jobs during a hog killing?
(a) To clean and prepare the intestines for sausages.
(b) To roast the pig on a spit.
(c) To slit the hog's throat.
(d) To keep the children occupied.

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

3. What does the demon do to Horace when he disobeys him at the start of the section titled April 30, 1984, 1:15 a.m.?
(a) Hits him hard in the stomach.
(b) Cracks him over the head with a gun.
(c) Cuts him with a spear.
(d) Punches him in the face.

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

5. What is one book Horace uses to inform his transformation?
(a) Encyclopedia of North American Birds.
(b) The Biggest Cats of North America.
(c) Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.
(d) Exotic Spells for Teenage Boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What significant historical period or event did Zeke's grandfather Ezra live through?

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

3. Who was Horace's father?

4. Who was Zeke's wife?

5. 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?

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