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

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

3. What does Uncle Pharaoh say when Mandy tells him about the man in the river?
(a) He says that is inpossible.
(b) He says they should ask the man how to get out of the woods.
(c) He says the creek answered his prayer to send a friend.
(d) He says they should leave camp now.

4. What does Aunt Inez tell Mandy they always have to be ready to do?
(a) Eat.
(b) Run.
(c) Sing.
(d) Fight.

5. What does Randall cook for the reunion with his friends?
(a) Goose.
(b) Beef.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mandy dream about the day she meets the man in the creek?

2. What does the ghost in Randall's house do with the plate of food Randall makes for him?

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

4. What does Gloria Brown do for a living?

5. What had the man who Gloria meets with in the story Ezekiel Saw the Wheel been doing when his wife died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Gloria Brown particularly worry about the safety of her daughter Tamar?

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

4. What does Gloria Brown dream of in the Story Ezekiel Saw the Wheel?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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