View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?
(a) Seeing into the future.
(b) Predicting tragedies.
(c) Successful matchmaking.
(d) Weather prediction.

2. Who does Horace have his first homosexual sexual experiences with?
(a) Gideon.
(b) Everett.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) John Anthony.

3. What is one of the ramblings of Asa's roommate, an old, confused white woman?
(a) She is worried she is missing church.
(b) She is worried about the running of her farm, which she remembers from her past.
(c) She is worried she is missing a friend's funeral.
(d) She is worried she is missing her niece's christening.

4. Why was Zeke so angry at Horace during the time period when Horace was working at the theater?
(a) Horace told Zeke he wanted to be an actor, which Zeke did not approve of.
(b) Horace told Zeke he thought he might be gay.
(c) Horace came home way past his curfew and drunk.
(d) Horace told Zeke he did not want to be a preacher, which Zeke had wanted him to be.

5. What always bothered Reverend Greene about Anne?
(a) Her atheism.
(b) Her eating habits.
(c) Her self-contained ease.
(d) Her mood swings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rose move when she leaves her hometown?

2. How many times does Horace perform the chant for his spell?

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

4. What was one of the women's jobs during a hog killing?

5. What does the Reverend Barden do to Horace during Horace's vision in the section Black Necromancy?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 339 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample