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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one major defining characteristic of Zeke's wife as he remembers her?
(a) She was very beautiful physically.
(b) She was an excellent seamstress.
(c) She was an extremely hard worker.
(d) She was a skilled herbalist.

2. Who does Jimmy offer to help up from a fall in the first part of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) Horace.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Zeke.
(d) Rose.

3. What kind of animal does Horace settle on changing himself into?
(a) A lion.
(b) A red-tailed hawk.
(c) A dog.
(d) A leopard.

4. 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 has painted his face entirely with white paint.
(c) Horace is bleeding from a bullet wound.
(d) Horace has lost several teeth.

5. Which work of William Gibson's does Kenan use a quote from in the very beginning of the book?
(a) Peripheral.
(b) Count Zero.
(c) Pattern Recognition.
(d) Neuromancer.

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

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

8. How many children did Zeke have as a result of his affairs outside of his marriage?
(a) 2 that he knows of.
(b) 3 that he knows of.
(c) 4 that he knows of.
(d) 5 that he knows of.

9. What does the demon do to Horace when he disobeys him at the start of the section titled April 30, 1984, 1:15 a.m.?
(a) Hits him hard in the stomach.
(b) Cuts him with a spear.
(c) Punches him in the face.
(d) Cracks him over the head with a gun.

10. 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?
(a) Foxes whining.
(b) Dogs barking.
(c) Lions roaring.
(d) Frogs croaking.

11. Who was Horace's father?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Zeke.
(d) Ezra.

12. What significant historical period or event did Zeke's grandfather Ezra live through?
(a) The War of 1812.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) The Civil Rights Movement.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

13. What does Horace's friend John Anthony call him?
(a) The Great Black Hope.
(b) The Man of the Hour.
(c) The Comeback Kid.
(d) The Miracle Worker.

14. What is one of Horace's positive memories of his aunts from his elementary school years?
(a) They made him delicious packed lunches.
(b) They bought him many books.
(c) They spoke to his principal and advocated for him when he had gotten into a fight with a white boy.
(d) They let him dress as a girl without criticizing him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the clerical worker who always covers her typewriter before going home from the school Jimmy runs?

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

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

4. Who was one of the most recent reverends at Zeke's church that he thinks about on his way to visit Asa in the section titled Black Necromancy?

5. Why does Jimmy's favorite professor tell him he will make a great preacher?

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