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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) Predicting tragedies.
(b) Successful matchmaking.
(c) Seeing into the future.
(d) Weather prediction.

2. 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?
(a) Reverend Barden.
(b) Reverend Sounderland.
(c) Reverend Smith.
(d) Reverend Johnson.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the two men Zeke remembers fighting over Amy Williams in his youth?

2. Which work of William Gibson's does Kenan use a quote from in the very beginning of the book?

3. Who was Jimmy's grandmother?

4. What does Horace see happen to Reverend Barden in his vision in the section Black Necromancy?

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

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. Why does Reverend Greene's wife, Anne, say she wants to stay in the South?

4. 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?

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

6. What kind of a student and child is Horace Cross before he performs his spell?

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

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

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

10. Why does Reverend Greene's mentor, Philip Schnider, tell him he will make a great theologian?

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