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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Pharaoh teach Mandy?
(a) Reading and writing.
(b) Planting methods.
(c) Old songs.
(d) Carpentry.

2. Who is Tamar's girlfriend?
(a) Diane.
(b) Bennie.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Lilith.

3. How does Mandy walk in the story Mamiwata?
(a) In a carefree way.
(b) Heavily, like a soldier.
(c) Like a fawn.
(d) She does not walk, she always runs.

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

5. What is the significance Randall remembers about periwinkle?
(a) It was used as a sign for peace.
(b) It was used to mark the graves of the enslaved to keep the ground clear of everything else.
(c) It was used as a sign for forgiveness.
(d) It was used in magical ceremonies.

6. What or who does Mandy see in the water in the beginning of the story Mamiwata?
(a) A turtle.
(b) A large man.
(c) A snake.
(d) A rabbit.

7. Who was Randall's first editor?
(a) Beth Hendry.
(b) Winnifred Jensen.
(c) Agnes Van Horne.
(d) Lena Stalingworth.

8. What is Velmajean's first "miracle"?
(a) She walks on water.
(b) She makes a man's lost arm grow back.
(c) She lays hands on a little girl who has been badly injured and revives her.
(d) She makes a blind man see.

9. Who caught a rabbit for food in the story Mamiwata?
(a) Pharaoh.
(b) Rastus.
(c) Ike.
(d) Mandy.

10. What does Mandy dream about the day she meets the man in the creek?
(a) Her mother dying.
(b) Dogs chasing her.
(c) Being beaten.
(d) Dark men emerging from the water.

11. What is the name of Alexa's new book she is working on?
(a) Lard and Promises.
(b) Resurrection Hardware.
(c) Come On and Cook.
(d) Southern Gentry Cooking.

12. What is one movie Gloria has seen that depicts tense situations in the military?
(a) Riot.
(b) Forced recruiter.
(c) Sleepers.
(d) Jarhead.

13. What happens to the man from the grocery store parking lot in the first ending?
(a) He disappears in a cloud of smoke.
(b) He stabs himself.
(c) He is shot in the shoulder.
(d) He is strangled by a security guard.

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

15. Who was Velmajean's husband?
(a) Parker Hoyt.
(b) Raymond Hoyt.
(c) Marshall Hoyt.
(d) Lenny Hoyt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Randall fear meeting at his reunion with his friends?

2. What does Mandy's Aunt Inez grow in a pot?

3. Where was Siddiq's father going the first time Randall met him?

4. What does Gloria Brown dream of in the story Ezekiel Saw the Wheel?

5. What does Ron see in Randall's bathroom during the reunion?

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