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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What analogy does Ellison use to describe Laly and Bliss's love?
(a) Like two birds.
(b) Like two snakes.
(c) Like two dolphins.
(d) Like two lions.

2. Like what animal does Reverend Hickman encourage his parishoners to continue to "inch on"?
(a) A tall oak tree.
(b) A weed.
(c) An inchworm.
(d) A snail.

3. Why was the reverend once sitting in a lamp-lit room with guns and a rifle?
(a) Because he was thinking about trying to kill himself.
(b) Because he was holding people hostage.
(c) Because he was waiting for the police to raid his apartment.
(d) Because he was waiting for a lynch mob to come and get him.

4. How many people did Senator Sunraider sometimes preach to in his childhood?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Five thousand.
(d) One dozen.

5. Whose idea is it to have the young senator pop out of a coffin during services?
(a) Bliss's.
(b) Buddy's.
(c) The pope's.
(d) Reverend Hickman's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ends up interrupting Bliss's interaction with the small clown outside of the circus tent?

2. What skill of Senator Sunraider's was obvious early in childhood?

3. What caused Lorelli to lose her mind?

4. What two kinds of memories collide as the senator falls into his last series of hallucinations before he dies?

5. What is Bliss wearing in his little coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?

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