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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the stranger from the grocery store parking lot in the third ending?
(a) He disappears in a cloud of smoke.
(b) Security guards hold him down waiting for police to arrive.
(c) He is fatally shot.
(d) He is fatally stabbed.

2. 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 Lazarus Barden.
(c) Reverend Michael Amithy.
(d) Reverend Max Gambit.

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

4. What does Uncle Pharaoh say to Mandy when she tells him she caught the catfish?
(a) He tells her she did a good job.
(b) He tells her to stop fishing.
(c) He tells her to get more like it.
(d) He asks her why she lies to him.

5. What does the person Mandy meets in the beginning of the story Mamiwata tell her he is doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Biding his time.
(c) Meditating.
(d) Standing watch.

6. What does Gloria's daughter do for a living?
(a) She is a baker.
(b) She is an accountant.
(c) She is a helicopter pilot.
(d) She is a policewoman.

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

8. What does the man from the grocery store parking lot say to Velmajean in the fourth ending?
(a) You are evil.
(b) Scene.
(c) It was not meant to be like this.
(d) Go back to where you came from.

9. What does the ghost in Randall's house do with the plate of food Randall makes for him?
(a) Eats it ravenously.
(b) Seems to admire it but does not eat it.
(c) Throws it across the room.
(d) Gives it to the ghost sitting next to him.

10. What does Randall see in the barn one night that startles and confounds him?
(a) The ghost of his mother.
(b) Many horses.
(c) Images of several dead Black people.
(d) A collection of books.

11. Who is Gloria's new pastor?
(a) Reverend Barden.
(b) Reverend Eggleston.
(c) Reverend Deere.
(d) Reverend Wilton.

12. Who breaks into Velmajean's house at the end of the story?
(a) Benny Jensen.
(b) The man from the parking lot who gave her her powers in the first place.
(c) Spike Eggleston.
(d) Richard Harringten.

13. What does Randall do when he first discovers a ghost in his house in the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises?
(a) Calls his father.
(b) Calls his pastor.
(c) Runs screaming from the house.
(d) Makes coffee and things what to do next.

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

15. How old is Mandy in the story Mamiwata?
(a) 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Pharaoh teach Mandy?

2. What is the name of the plantation Mandy used to be enslaved upon?

3. What is the name of Alexa's new book she is working on?

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

5. What does the man in the river tell Mandy to do when they hear men and dogs?

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