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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 the name of Zeke's son who had died five years after his birth?
(a) Michael.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Horace.

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

3. Who was one of Jimmy's favorite professors at seminary?
(a) Ryan McHenry.
(b) James Zogby.
(c) Jacob Laurie.
(d) Philip Schnider.

4. 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 a shark's tooth, he should have used a snake's fang.
(b) Instead of ashes he should have used charcoal.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the older men teach the young boys to do on a hog killing day?

3. Who was the "prettiest" boy in Horace's class?

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

5. How did Zeke feel about his father?

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