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

2. Who does Randall fear meeting at his reunion with his friends?
(a) Ken.
(b) Inder.
(c) Sally.
(d) Alex.

3. What does the person Mandy meets in the beginning of the story Mamiwata tell her he is doing?
(a) Standing watch.
(b) Eating.
(c) Biding his time.
(d) Meditating.

4. 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 she did a good job.
(c) He asks her why she lies to him.
(d) He tells her to stop fishing.

5. Who arrives late to the dinner party that Randall is throwing?
(a) Ken.
(b) Alexa.
(c) Siddiq.
(d) Inder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gloria Brown's daughter?

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

3. How many miracles did Christ perform, depending on which scholars you ask?

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

5. What is Gloria Brown very good at?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Percy and what was he doing when he first saw the hog?

2. What grates on Percy Terrell's nerves about the hog in the very beginning of the story Now Why Come is That?

3. What does Pharaoh say when Mandy tells him and the others about Mamiwata?

4. What is Gloria Brown very good at, according to the story's narrator?

5. What does Percy Terrell think might be the real explanation for the fact that no one else seems to be able to see the hog?

6. What is one skill Randall likes to use and sometimes show off for friends?

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

8. Where is the mysterious man Amanda (Mandy) meets the first time she sees him in Mamiwata?

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

10. In the end of the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises, what does Randall begin to wonder about the ghosts?

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