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

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

3. What does Ron see in Randall's bathroom during the reunion?
(a) A dog.
(b) A naked man.
(c) A face in the mirror that was not his.
(d) A cat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Pharaoh say when Mandy tells him about the man in the river?

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

3. What does the man from the grocery store parking lot say to Velmajean in the fourth ending?

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

5. Why does Velmajean end up liking Eggleston's church?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is Lilith and what does Gloria Brown think of Lilith?

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

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

8. In the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises, what happens when Randall has a group of friends over that makes the presence of the ghosts in Randall's house clear?

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

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

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