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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 44).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of the sounds of creatures that Horace hears after he hears the voice for the first time in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) Dogs barking.
(b) Foxes whining.
(c) Frogs croaking.
(d) Lions roaring.

3. What startles Jimmy about Horace when Horace appears in the schoolyard behind Tims Creek Elementary on April 30, 1984?
(a) Horace is speaking gibberish, carrying a gun, and wearing only a coat.
(b) Horace has lost several teeth.
(c) Horace has painted his face entirely with white paint.
(d) Horace is bleeding from a bullet wound.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the older men teach the young boys to do on a hog killing day?

2. How does Jimmy's brother feel about his wife?

3. Who is Jimmy's wife?

4. In what year does Kenan set the first part of the section titled White Sorcery?

5. Which librarian does Horace encounter in the section titled White Sorcery?

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