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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. What does Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?
(a) Seeing into the future.
(b) Weather prediction.
(c) Predicting tragedies.
(d) Successful matchmaking.

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

3. Who tells Horace that his grandmother has died?
(a) His aunts Ruth, Rachel, and Rebecca.
(b) His grandfather Zeke.
(c) His father Samuel.
(d) His mother Rose.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horace use in his transformation spell in place of the "babe"?

2. 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.?

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

4. What does Horace begin to have second thoughts about having used in his spell at the end of the section titled White Sorcery?

5. What does Horace substitute in his transformation spell in place of a sea monster's tooth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What format does Reverend Greene's conversation with Horace beginning on page 40 take?

3. What was a hog killing day like in Tims Creek?

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

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

6. How does Zeke feel about his own father, Thomas Cross?

7. What does Zeke remember about Cyrus Johns and Cicero Edmunds fighting over?

8. Where does Reverend Greene take Ruth and Zeke in his car in the section titled December 8, 1985?

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

10. What does the demon ask Horace to do in the church in the section titled April 30, 1985, 1:15 a.m., and why is this significant?

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