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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who tells Horace that his grandmother has died?
2. What is unusual about Jimmy's favorite professor at seminary?
3. Why does Zeke feel he has to be especially polite to Jimmy in the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?
4. What was one major defining characteristic of Zeke's wife as he remembers her?
5. What is the name of Horace's elementary school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What particular part of Horace's spell to transform himself into an animal does he struggle with morally?
2. What is the illness that Asa Cross is dying from?
3. What kind of a student and child is Horace Cross before he performs his spell?
4. What is a main driving force in Horace's grandfather Zeke's life?
5. What is Zeke's relationship with his sister-in-law Ruth like?
6. In the section titled April 30, 1984, 1:15 a.m., what does the demon instruct Horace to kill?
7. What are some of Horace's interests that converge to lead him to try casting a spell?
8. What historical structure in Fayetteville causes controversy over whether or not it should be removed?
9. How does Zeke feel about his own father, Thomas Cross?
10. What does Zeke remember about Cyrus Johns and Cicero Edmunds fighting over?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Horace's high school seem to symbolize for him, and why do you think he visits it on the night of April 30 with the demon? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
In Horace's final narrated section of the book, in the section titled Old Gods, New Demons, Horace remembers in graphic detail watching his grandfather kill chickens. How does this memory, and its imagery, relate to Horace's own suicide? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How does Kenan's graphic description of the hog killings in the section titled December 8, 1985, and the rituals and traditions that surround them, set the tone for the rest of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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