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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 133 - 174).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Inez Cross Chasten decide not to ever tell her husband about Hughes's offer to work for him?
(a) He would have been angry that she knew how to cook but did not cook for him.
(b) He might have left her for being so insolent.
(c) He would have been upset that she did not take Hughes up on his offer because it was so lucrative.
(d) He would have been angry that she had even talked to Hughes.

2. Where did Randall live in his first year of college?
(a) The southside of Chicago.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Northeast Washington D.C.
(d) North Campus in Chapel Hill.

3. What kind of cake is Gloria getting for her daughter?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Red velvet.
(c) Carrot.
(d) Vanilla.

4. Who is Velmajean Swearington Hoyt's reverend in the story The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God?
(a) Reverend Spike Eggleston.
(b) Reverend Michael Amithy.
(c) Reverend Lazarus Barden.
(d) Reverend Max Gambit.

5. What was the narrator's sister particularly fascinated with regarding Howard Hughes?
(a) His tie.
(b) His hat.
(c) His shoes.
(d) His handkerchief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to see Velmajean from her past in the end of the story?

2. Who is Lazarus's wife?

3. What is Velmajean's second "miracle"?

4. What does Lazarus call his aunt who is always trying to stick her nose in other people's business?

5. When did Inez Cross Pickett die?

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