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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What is the name of Reverend Spike Eggleston's church?
(a) The Atomic Church.
(b) The Healing Hut.
(c) The Hill.
(d) The Speaking Word.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is Randall's relationship to Inder?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They are uncle and nephew.
(c) They are brothers.
(d) They are ex-lovers and current friends.

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

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

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

15. What does the man in the river tell Mandy to do when they hear men and dogs?
(a) Come into the creek with him.
(b) Hide behind a tree.
(c) Get her gun.
(d) Run as fast as she can.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Where does Randall volunteer in the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises?

4. Who was Velmajean's husband?

5. Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?

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