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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 the demon tell Horace to do to Reverend Barden in the section Black Necromancy?
(a) Bow before him.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Baptize him.
(d) Feed him.

2. What was one of the women's jobs during a hog killing?
(a) To keep the children occupied.
(b) To slit the hog's throat.
(c) To clean and prepare the intestines for sausages.
(d) To roast the pig on a spit.

3. What is unusual about Jimmy's favorite professor at seminary?
(a) He had converted to Christianity from Islam.
(b) He was much older than the other professors.
(c) He was much younger than the other professors.
(d) He was a Christian Jew.

4. What did the women always do as they worked on a hog killing day?
(a) Clean the guns.
(b) Talk and gossip constantly.
(c) Tend to the garden.
(d) Clean the knives.

5. What Charles Dickens book does Kenan open the novel with a quote from?
(a) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) Oliver Twist.
(c) A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) A Christmas Carol.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Whose car does Horace steal at the end of the section titled Black Necromancy?

4. What was the name of Zeke's son who had died five years after his birth?

5. What is the first thing the voice says to Horace in the section titled White Sorcery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zeke remember his life with his wife, Retha (short for Aretha)?

2. What are some of Horace's interests that converge to lead him to try casting a spell?

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

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

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

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

7. What kinds of books does Horace like, judging from how he has decorated his bedroom at home?

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

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

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

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