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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 color Bible does the young senator hold when he comes out of the coffin during revivals as a child?
(a) White.
(b) Brown (leather).
(c) Black.
(d) Light blue.

2. What items does Bliss have with him in the coffin before the Juneteenth revival?
(a) His stuffed animals.
(b) His stuffed animals and his Bible.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) His Bible.

3. How many people did Senator Sunraider sometimes preach to in his childhood?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) One dozen.
(d) One hundred.

4. What does Hickman say is the one thing keeping Bliss from being a great preacher?
(a) He curses too much.
(b) He won't sing.
(c) He likes to sleep late on Sundays.
(d) He wants to get married.

5. When he is on his deathbed, why can't the senator acknowledge Reverend Hickman?
(a) He is too tired.
(b) He is too proud.
(c) He is too brain damaged.
(d) He is too confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the senator suggest Reverend Hickman might have otherwise done with his life?

2. For the large Juneteenth revival, who lifts Bliss into the coffin?

3. What food reward does the young senator get for popping out of the coffin at the appropriate time?

4. How does Bliss remember feeling inside of the tiny coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?

5. What skill of Senator Sunraider's was obvious early in childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Bliss, Donelson, and Karp when Laly and the other townspeople discover that their movie-making venture is a fraud?

2. What makes Hickman realize he will have a life of bachelorhood?

3. Why does Hickman want Bliss to rise out of a coffin during their services?

4. What makes Bliss so upset about the clown act at the circus?

5. How does the senator remember his costume feeling as he lay in the coffin waiting for his cue?

6. How do Bliss, Donelson, and Karp make their way across the country?

7. How does Reverend Hickman feel about the Juneteenth holiday?

8. What does the boy in the senator's final hallucination tell him?

9. What does Senator Sunraider see after he has been shot?

10. Why does Sister Georgia think she is most qualified to take care of Bliss after the incident at the Juneteenth revival?

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