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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 is Velmajean's first "miracle"?
(a) She makes a blind man see.
(b) She makes a man's lost arm grow back.
(c) She walks on water.
(d) She lays hands on a little girl who has been badly injured and revives her.

2. What does Randall think of in the very end of the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises?
(a) His late sister.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His mother, lover, and home.
(d) His father.

3. What does the man in the supermarket parking lot say to Velmajean right before he leaves?
(a) His wonders to behold.
(b) A mile to go before you sleep.
(c) You better use these powers wisely.
(d) Blessed are you for you are the lamb.

4. Where does Randall volunteer in the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises?
(a) The Reinhardt Theater.
(b) The YMCA.
(c) The Sound Stage.
(d) Settlement House.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Randall do when he first discovers a ghost in his house in the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises?

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

3. Who caught a rabbit for food in the story Mamiwata?

4. Who does Randall fear meeting at his reunion with his friends?

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 Gloria Brown dream of in the Story Ezekiel Saw the Wheel?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Velmajean's pastor, Spike Eggleston, react to her new and supposedly miraculous powers?

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

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