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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 209 - 257).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the older men teach the young boys to do on a hog killing day?
(a) Shoot a hog.
(b) Make sausages.
(c) Dress a hog.
(d) Calm a hog.

2. 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 told Zeke he did not want to be a preacher, which Zeke had wanted him to be.
(d) Horace came home way past his curfew and drunk.

3. What was the name of Zeke's daughter who only lived one year?
(a) Rose.
(b) Edna.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Rachel.

4. Who chases Horace in the section titled Holy Science?
(a) Zeke.
(b) The police.
(c) Five young white men.
(d) Reverend Greene.

5. What is one of the first signs for Horace that his spell might be working?
(a) It starts to rain.
(b) He hears birds making a racket overhead.
(c) A rogue wave from the river washes over him.
(d) A fire starts spontaneously at his feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Jonnie Mae's daughters never married?

2. What does Horace start to hear about Gideon after his own grades start slipping?

3. Who does Horace see in his hallucination at the Crosstown Theater?

4. How does Gideon respond when Horace writes him a letter telling him he has feelings for him?

5. What do Ruth and Zeke talk about that breaks the tension and their streak of fighting in the section titled Old Demonology?

(see the answer key)

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