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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. About how old was Zeke when he helped his father build their house?

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

3. What does Horace's friend John Anthony call him?

4. Who tells Horace that his grandmother has died?

5. What did the women always do as they worked on a hog killing day?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Zeke remember Horace's father, Sammy?

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

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

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

6. What historical structure in Fayetteville causes controversy over whether or not it should be removed?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Ruth so shaken by the illness and decline of Asa Cross? How are Ruth's feelings for Asa different from her feelings for everyone else in the Cross family? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Ezekiel worships his father, Thomas Cross, and has always felt he has not lived up to his father's legacy or expectations. Write an essay analyzing the range of feelings and regrets Ezekiel has surrounding his father, Thomas, citing specific references to the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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