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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Horace able to steal the car in the section titled Black Necromancy?
(a) He knows how to hot-wire a car.
(b) He smashes the window of the car and breaks into the house to steal the keys to it.
(c) The keys are in the ignition.
(d) The demon makes the car go by magic.

2. About how old was Zeke when he helped his father build their house?
(a) 20.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 14.

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

4. 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.

5. What does Horace substitute in his transformation spell in place of a sea monster's tooth?
(a) His own tooth.
(b) A dog's tooth.
(c) A snake's fang.
(d) A shark's tooth.

6. What does Horace begin to realize about the effects of being his grandfather's grandson as he gets older?
(a) A lot of people owe his grandfather money, so they are especially nice to Horace.
(b) Horace's grandfather can pull strings with politicians, so people try to get Horace to put in a good word for them with his grandfather.
(c) Horace's grandfather has been nasty to many people, so people treat Horace badly.
(d) His grandfather is respected in the community, so people treat Horace better than they would many other kids his age.

7. Who does Horace live with in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) His grandmother Retha.
(b) His cousin Ann.
(c) His grandfather, Zeke.
(d) His father Samuel.

8. What kind of community event do Ruth and Zeke discuss in the car with Jimmy in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) A tobacco-picking party.
(b) A barn burning.
(c) A hog killing.
(d) A harvest festival.

9. What kinds of stories does Horace like to read and decorate his room with?
(a) Superheroes and comic book stories.
(b) Vampires.
(c) Princesses.
(d) Green myths and legends.

10. 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?
(a) Whether or not to preserve the last standing slave market.
(b) Whether or not to prosecute white police officers there for killing an unarmed black man.
(c) Whether or not to prosecute a black man who had killed a white man in self-defense.
(d) Whether or not to preserve the statue of a confederate general.

11. Who was Zeke's wife?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Rose.
(c) Anne.
(d) Retha.

12. What is the only book Zeke ever reads?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) The Farmer's Almanac.
(d) Moby Dick.

13. 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.

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

15. Who was the "prettiest" boy in Horace's class?
(a) John Anthony Wember.
(b) Michael Smurl.
(c) James Jordan.
(d) Gideon Stone.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was one major defining characteristic of Zeke's wife as he remembers her?

4. What was the first car Zeke ever saw?

5. Why was Zeke so angry at Horace during the time period when Horace was working at the theater?

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