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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Laly and Bliss do while on a picnic lunch one Sunday afternoon?
(a) Run away together.
(b) Get into a major fight.
(c) Steal a car.
(d) Make love.

2. What does the person who interrupts the large Juneteenth ceremony claim?
(a) That Bliss is her son.
(b) That she has seen the Lord.
(c) That she met Jesus a minute ago.
(d) That she is pregnant.

3. What happens to Senator Sunraider's assassin?
(a) He is tried and found guilty.
(b) He falls off the balcony to his death.
(c) He shoots himself.
(d) He is detained and attacked by an angry mob.

4. How is the person who interrupts the large Juneteenth revival ceremony removed from the service?
(a) She is put in handcuffs and carried out.
(b) She leaves on her own.
(c) She faints and is taken out by ambulance.
(d) She is dragged out.

5. What does Bliss find himself torn between after the large Juneteenth revival is interrupted?
(a) The white woman and a black nun.
(b) His honor and his desire.
(c) His old life and his new life.
(d) The stage and his coffin.

6. Why is the senator so cold, initially, to Reverend Hickman in the hospital?
(a) Because he is embarrassed by his looks.
(b) Because he feels he can do nothing for African Americans.
(c) Because he is still mad about the last fight they had.
(d) Because he is still angry about being abused.

7. What is the name of the person who assassinates Senator Sunraider?
(a) Severen.
(b) Jameson.
(c) McCarthy.
(d) Snape.

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

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

10. What rhyme does Bowlegs create to make fun of Bliss?
(a) Bliss, Bliss, he's a siss.
(b) Blis, Bliss, always amiss.
(c) He didn't create a rhyme.
(d) Bliss, Bliss, Cat piss miss.

11. What item does the young senator demand be in the coffin with him?
(a) He demands nothing at all, not even a pillow.
(b) His teddy bear.
(c) His favorite blanket.
(d) His nightlight.

12. When he is on his deathbed, why can't the senator acknowledge Reverend Hickman?
(a) He is too confused.
(b) He is too tired.
(c) He is too brain damaged.
(d) He is too proud.

13. Which character does Senator Sunraider ask for from the hospital?
(a) Reverend Hickman.
(b) His mother.
(c) The president.
(d) Sister Laly.

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

15. How does Senator Sunraider see things once he has been attacked?
(a) He sees things but cannot hear anything.
(b) In slow motion.
(c) In black and white.
(d) Everything turns red.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bliss breathe when locked inside the coffin?

2. Like what animal does Reverend Hickman encourage his parishoners to continue to "inch on"?

3. According to Donelson, why does Bliss travel so lightly?

4. What does Hickman preach will happen if you keep putting one and one together?

5. How does Bliss remember feeling inside of the tiny coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?

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