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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 narrator lament about the changes in modern times compared to the hog-killing days?
(a) People have lost the communal traditions and strong sense of community that hog killings fostered.
(b) No one really lives in the town anymore, so there are no children to teach traditional ways to.
(c) The children will not know how to kill and dress their own food.
(d) The supermarket sausages are not as good.

2. Who tells Horace that his grandmother has died?
(a) His father Samuel.
(b) His aunts Ruth, Rachel, and Rebecca.
(c) His grandfather Zeke.
(d) His mother Rose.

3. What kinds of stories does Horace like to read and decorate his room with?
(a) Superheroes and comic book stories.
(b) Princesses.
(c) Green myths and legends.
(d) Vampires.

4. Who was Horace's father?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Zeke.

5. What does Horace begin to have second thoughts about having used in his spell at the end of the section titled White Sorcery?
(a) Instead of a feather, he should have used rabbit's fur.
(b) Instead of ashes he should have used charcoal.
(c) Instead of a shark's tooth, he should have used a snake's fang.
(d) Instead of a kitten he thinks he should have perhaps used a human baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Zeke's daughter who only lived one year?

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

3. Who stopped the fight between the two men over Amy Williams from Zeke's youth?

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

5. Who was Zeke Cross's father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What kind of animal does Horace decide to turn himself into and why?

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

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

6. What format does Reverend Greene's conversation with Horace beginning on page 40 take?

7. In the section titled April 30, 1984, 1:15 a.m., what does the demon instruct Horace to kill?

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

9. What is Zeke's relationship with his sister-in-law Ruth like?

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

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