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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Siddiq's father going the first time Randall met him?
(a) A meeting at the Saudi embassy.
(b) Rushing to the airport.
(c) To the bank.
(d) To dinner at the White House.

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

3. Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Zadie Smith.

4. What does the man in the river give to Mandy that she takes back to camp?
(a) A mysterious flower.
(b) A song.
(c) A dog.
(d) A huge catfish.

5. What does the man in the river tell Mandy he will do for her when they hear the dogs barking and the men coming through the woods?
(a) Kill her.
(b) Protect her.
(c) Find her aunt.
(d) Take her back to the plantation.

6. What does Reverend Eggleston tell Velmajean when she asks if he has any idea why she was bestowed with the powers she has?
(a) Because she has money.
(b) The Lord works in mysterious ways.
(c) It is just random.
(d) Because she is virtous.

7. 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 pastor.
(b) Calls his father.
(c) Makes coffee and things what to do next.
(d) Runs screaming from the house.

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

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

10. What book concerning Egypt did Randall read in high school?
(a) Infidel.
(b) Solider.
(c) In Search of Identity.
(d) The Hamlet.

11. Who lets Siddiq do some construction jobs for a time?
(a) Ben Statson.
(b) Duke Woodbin.
(c) Art Harwood.
(d) Sean McGillicuddy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Inez tell Mandy not to do?

2. Who originally persuades Velmajean to try a new church?

3. Where was Randall's first job out of college?

4. Where does Siddiq go for the summer?

5. What does Randall drink at the reunion with his friends?

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