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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) Planting methods.
(b) Reading and writing.
(c) Old songs.
(d) Carpentry.

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

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

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

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) Standing watch.
(d) Meditating.

6. Who did Alexa marry?
(a) Randall.
(b) Siddiq.
(c) Winston.
(d) Alexander.

7. Who once owned most of the area Randall's house is built on?
(a) The Lutherans.
(b) The Quakers.
(c) The Amish.
(d) The Mormons.

8. Where does Reverend Eggleston suggest Velmajean move to?
(a) A hotel.
(b) Her son's house.
(c) His house.
(d) A nursing home.

9. What does Gloria Brown do for a living?
(a) She is a lawyer.
(b) She is an undertaker.
(c) She is a fortune teller.
(d) She is a pilot.

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

11. What does Aunt Inez tell Mandy they always have to be ready to do?
(a) Run.
(b) Sing.
(c) Eat.
(d) Fight.

12. 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 Max Gambit.
(d) Reverend Michael Amithy.

13. What does Randall drink at the reunion with his friends?
(a) Gin.
(b) Guinness.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Whiskey.

14. Where does Siddiq go for the summer?
(a) The Outher Banks.
(b) Newport.
(c) Raleigh.
(d) Topsail Island.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who caught a rabbit for food in the story Mamiwata?

2. What does Mandy dream about the day she meets the man in the creek?

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

4. Who did Randall's editor once work for in Japan after the war?

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

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