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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 103).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one book Horace uses to inform his transformation?
(a) Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.
(b) The Biggest Cats of North America.
(c) Encyclopedia of North American Birds.
(d) Exotic Spells for Teenage Boys.

2. What kind of community event do Ruth and Zeke discuss in the car with Jimmy in the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) A tobacco-picking party.
(b) A harvest festival.
(c) A barn burning.
(d) A hog killing.

3. What significant historical period or event did Zeke's grandfather Ezra live through?
(a) The War of 1812.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

4. What was one major defining characteristic of Zeke's wife as he remembers her?
(a) She was an extremely hard worker.
(b) She was very beautiful physically.
(c) She was an excellent seamstress.
(d) She was a skilled herbalist.

5. Why does Zeke feel he has to be especially polite to Jimmy in the section titled December 8, 1985, 9:30 a.m.?
(a) Because Zeke has been very curt with Jimmy in the past.
(b) Because Jimmy has helped Zeke in the aftermath of Horace's suicide.
(c) Because Ruth is being so rude, and he wants to balance out her behavior.
(d) Because Jimmy is really going out of his way to help him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ruth claim to have predictive powers about?

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

3. How many times does Horace perform the chant for his spell?

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

5. Who was Zeke's wife?

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