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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Gloria Brown very good at?
(a) Listening.
(b) Giving advice.
(c) Budgeting.
(d) Deception.

7. What does the man from the grocery store parking lot say to Velmajean about her powers in the first three of the four endings?
(a) You need to praise Satan.
(b) I did not want to give you this power.
(c) Who said it was from God?
(d) You lied abou this from the start.

8. What does Velmajean feel when the young man in the grocery store parking lot holds her hand in his?
(a) A sort of ecstasy.
(b) A cold feeling.
(c) A feeling of suspicion.
(d) A terrible darkness.

9. When is the first time Velmajean begins to feel afraid rather than blessed?
(a) When she loses her wedding ring.
(b) When she hears the word "miracle" for the first time at bingo night.
(c) When she is robbed.
(d) When she drops her cake.

10. What is Velmajean's second "miracle"?
(a) Walking on water.
(b) Feeding hundreds of men with very little food.
(c) Raising someone from the dead.
(d) Making a blind person see.

11. What happens to Velmajean in the second ending?
(a) She is strangled.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is stabbed badly.
(d) She is unharmed.

12. What did Max Factor call the color of makeup he developed for Lena Horne?
(a) Mocha.
(b) Latte.
(c) Light Egyptian.
(d) Fake Pharoah.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tamar's girlfriend?

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 Ron see in Randall's bathroom during the reunion?

5. What does Gloria's daughter do for a living?

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