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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 kitten he thinks he should have perhaps used a human baby.
(b) Instead of a shark's tooth, he should have used a snake's fang.
(c) Instead of ashes he should have used charcoal.
(d) Instead of a feather, he should have used rabbit's fur.

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

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

4. What does Horace attempt to summon with his spell?
(a) A mermaid.
(b) A god.
(c) A fairy godmother.
(d) A demon.

5. How did Zeke's father initially react to the news that Zeke was marrying his wife?
(a) He gave Zeke his blessing.
(b) He tried to convince Zeke to marry one of his cousins.
(c) He tried to convince Zeke to marry one of the neighbors.
(d) He tried to talk Zeke out of it.

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

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

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

9. Who was Zeke Cross's father?
(a) Jethro Cross.
(b) Thomas Cross.
(c) Timothy Cross.
(d) Ezra Cross.

10. Who is the clerical worker who always covers her typewriter before going home from the school Jimmy runs?
(a) Mrs. Jeyton.
(b) Mrs. Just.
(c) Mrs. Right.
(d) Mrs. Neary.

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

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

13. In what year does Kenan set the first part of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1983.

14. Why does Zeke feel he has to be especially polite to Jimmy in the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?
(a) Because Zeke has been very curt with Jimmy in the past.
(b) Because Ruth is being so rude, and he wants to balance out her behavior.
(c) Because Jimmy is really going out of his way to help him.
(d) Because Jimmy has helped Zeke in the aftermath of Horace's suicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Horace's positive memories of his aunts from his elementary school years?

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

3. 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?

4. Who was Horace's best friend since kindergarten?

5. What is one of the sounds of creatures that Horace hears after he hears the voice for the first time in the section titled White Sorcery?

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