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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Take her back to the plantation.
(b) Protect her.
(c) Find her aunt.
(d) Kill her.

2. Where does Randall volunteer in the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises?
(a) The Sound Stage.
(b) The YMCA.
(c) The Reinhardt Theater.
(d) Settlement House.

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

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

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

6. What or who does Mandy see in the water in the beginning of the story Mamiwata?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A large man.
(c) A snake.
(d) A turtle.

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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 asks her why she lies to him.
(d) He tells her she did a good job.

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

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

15. What is the name of the plantation Mandy used to be enslaved upon?
(a) Newcastle.
(b) Rianard.
(c) Charybdis.
(d) Solinare.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the man in the supermarket parking lot say to Velmajean right before he leaves?

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

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

5. Where does Siddiq go for the summer?

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