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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 171 - 208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Horace's elementary school?
(a) Fayetteville Elementary School.
(b) Tims Creek Elementary School.
(c) Stone River Elementary School.
(d) Hog's Peak Elementary School.

2. What does Horace use in his transformation spell in place of the "babe"?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A kitten.
(c) A wren.
(d) A goldfish.

3. What startles Jimmy about Horace when Horace appears in the schoolyard behind Tims Creek Elementary on April 30, 1984?
(a) Horace is speaking gibberish, carrying a gun, and wearing only a coat.
(b) Horace is bleeding from a bullet wound.
(c) Horace has painted his face entirely with white paint.
(d) Horace has lost several teeth.

4. What does the narrator lament about the changes in modern times compared to the hog-killing days?
(a) People have lost the communal traditions and strong sense of community that hog killings fostered.
(b) The supermarket sausages are not as good.
(c) The children will not know how to kill and dress their own food.
(d) No one really lives in the town anymore, so there are no children to teach traditional ways to.

5. What does Horace fleetingly think about the last apparition of the demon in the end of the section titled Holy Science?
(a) He thinks it means to reunite him with his dead father.
(b) He thinks it may have been his salvation.
(c) He thinks it is there to kill him.
(d) He thinks it means to guide him to find his long-lost mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport does Horace participate in?

2. What happens to Reverend Greene during his freshman year of college?

3. Who was Zeke Cross's father?

4. How many children did Zeke's grandfather Ezra have in total?

5. Which animal did Horace consider changing himself into at first?

(see the answer key)

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