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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Aunt Inez tell Mandy not to do?
(a) Wander from camp alone.
(b) Eat things from the woods.
(c) Play with cats.
(d) Sing to herself.

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

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

8. Who did Randall's editor once work for in Japan after the war?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) MacArthur.

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

10. 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 Spike Eggleston.
(d) Reverend Michael Amithy.

11. Why does Velmajean end up liking Eggleston's church?
(a) Because of how it pays its congregants.
(b) Because of how it validates all her feelings about faith.
(c) Because of the people there.
(d) Because of how the people there have already heard of her.

12. Who is Gloria Brown's daughter?
(a) Adeline.
(b) Steph.
(c) Lily.
(d) Tamar.

13. What does Mandy's Aunt Inez grow in a pot?
(a) Spearmint.
(b) Thyme.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Basil.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person Mandy meets in the beginning of the story Mamiwata tell her he is doing?

2. How does Mandy walk in the story Mamiwata?

3. Who once owned most of the area Randall's house is built on?

4. What or who does Mandy see in the water in the beginning of the story Mamiwata?

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

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