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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 sort of ecstasy.
(d) A feeling of suspicion.

2. Who is Tamar's girlfriend?
(a) Bennie.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Lilith.
(d) Diane.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mandy walk 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. What happens to the stranger from the grocery store parking lot in the third ending?

4. Who was Randall's first editor?

5. What happens to the man from the grocery store parking lot in the first ending?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Velmajean Swearington Hoyt appear to get her miraculous powers in the story The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God?

2. What does Mamiwata give to Mandy and what is extraordinary about this gift?

3. Why does Randall seem to feel unsure Siddiq will come back once he leaves on a work trip?

4. What is Percy Terrell dreaming about when he is rudely awoken in the story Now Why Come is That?

5. Why is Mandy camping out in the woods with the adults in the story Mamiwata?

6. Who tries to warn Velmajean that her pastor, Pastor Spike, might not have her best interests at heart?

7. Who does Randall begin to realize the ghosts he sees around his land and in his house were as living people?

8. Why is Percy Terrell so happy to see pig poop on his carpet?

9. What do you think Kenan is trying to insinuate about the origin of Velmajean's powers at the end of the story?

10. What is unusual about Kenan's story The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God in terms of its structure?

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