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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Jimmy has helped Zeke in the aftermath of Horace's suicide.
(b) Because Jimmy is really going out of his way to help him.
(c) Because Ruth is being so rude, and he wants to balance out her behavior.
(d) Because Zeke has been very curt with Jimmy in the past.

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

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

4. What sport does Horace participate in?
(a) Lacrosse.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Track.
(d) Basketball.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What significant historical period or event did Zeke's grandfather Ezra live through?

2. Who was Jimmy's grandmother?

3. What kind of car does Gideon steal at the end of the section titled Black Necromancy?

4. What does Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What significant historical event did Zeke's grandfather, Ezra, live through?

2. What kind of animal does Horace decide to turn himself into and why?

3. In the section titled April 30, 1984, 1:15 a.m., what does the demon instruct Horace to kill?

4. What is Zeke's relationship with his sister-in-law Ruth like?

5. What is a main driving force in Horace's grandfather Zeke's life?

6. How did Retha's death affect Horace?

7. What particular part of Horace's spell to transform himself into an animal does he struggle with morally?

8. Why is Reverend Greene extremely alarmed when he meets Horace in the woods early in the morning on April, 30, 1984?

9. How does Horace first become aware of what he feels is another presence after he performs his spell?

10. What is the illness that Asa Cross is dying from?

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