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

2. Where did Randall live in his first year of college?
(a) Northeast Washington D.C.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) North Campus in Chapel Hill.
(d) The southside of Chicago.

3. What is the significance Randall remembers about periwinkle?
(a) It was used as a sign for peace.
(b) It was used to mark the graves of the enslaved to keep the ground clear of everything else.
(c) It was used as a sign for forgiveness.
(d) It was used in magical ceremonies.

4. Where was Randall's first job out of college?
(a) Glamour.
(b) Tout Va Bien.
(c) Vanity Fair.
(d) Town and Country.

5. What does the man from the grocery store parking lot say to Velmajean about her powers in the first three of the four endings?
(a) I did not want to give you this power.
(b) Who said it was from God?
(c) You need to praise Satan.
(d) You lied abou this from the start.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Inez tell Mandy not to do?

2. Who is Velmajean Swearington Hoyt's reverend in the story The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God?

3. What does Gloria Brown dream of in the story Ezekiel Saw the Wheel?

4. What is Velmajean's first "miracle"?

5. What does Randall drink at the reunion with his friends?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gloria Brown do for a living, and what has she learned about dealing with customers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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