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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laly say she'll have to do a lot of for Bliss?
(a) Cook.
(b) Pray.
(c) Clean.
(d) Pay for things.

2. What is Senator Sunraider's first name?
(a) Adam.
(b) Bob.
(c) Cesar.
(d) David.

3. What does Hickman think might help the senator while he is lying in his hospital bed?
(a) Pictures of his children.
(b) A visiting choir.
(c) Praying together.
(d) Positive memories of their past together.

4. What does Reverend Hickman compare fractured slave families to?
(a) This is a trick question; he doesn't compare them to anything.
(b) People in prison.
(c) Chopped up potatoes.
(d) Jesus's family.

5. What promise does Bliss make to Laly?
(a) That he will give her a brand new house.
(b) That he will cast her in a movie.
(c) That he will get her pregnant so she can have a baby.
(d) That he will marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Senator Sunraider's assassin?

2. How does Senator Sunraider's wife respond to news of the shooting?

3. What is the age group of the people who arrive in Washington, D.C. when the novel opens?

4. When he is on his deathbed, why can't the senator acknowledge Reverend Hickman?

5. What does the senator suggest Reverend Hickman might have otherwise done with his life?

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