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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the senator's final hallucination, what does one of the two foxes he sees have in its mouth?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A dead rabbit.
(c) His best friend from childhood.
(d) His childhood teddy bear.

2. Who does Reverend Hickman ask to help him find Bliss when he disappears?
(a) His housemaid.
(b) The police.
(c) Parishoners.
(d) His wife.

3. What does the unexpected pregnant woman say she is trying to return to Hickman by leaving her baby with him?
(a) His murdered brother.
(b) The money she stole.
(c) Nothing; she leaves without saying a word.
(d) The curse he put on her years ago.

4. What sound does the senator hear as he flees the clubhouse in his final hallucination?
(a) Gunfire.
(b) People yelling out his name.
(c) Beautiful music, probably from angels.
(d) His mother's voice.

5. In the senator's final hallucination sequence, what does he remember a young woman telling him about love?
(a) It runs fast like a rabit.
(b) When you find it, you should nab it.
(c) It's named after Mr. Babit.
(d) It ain't nothing but a habit.

6. Why does Bliss know he won't be found by Reverend Hickman?
(a) Because he is in a white neighborhood.
(b) Because he considered Reverend Hickman stupid.
(c) Because he moves around so often.
(d) Because he is very far away.

7. Why does Hickman name the baby boy "Bliss?"
(a) Because that's the last word he heard his mother say.
(b) "Because that's what ignorance is."
(c) Because he's always wanted to name his son that.
(d) Because that's what his mother wanted him named.

8. Who does the woman in Bliss's first movie (that he sees) remind him of?
(a) Lorelli.
(b) His mother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) Sister Georgia.

9. Although they don't know Bliss is hiding underneath, what are the people on the porch talking about when Bliss is eavesdropping?
(a) How old Reverend Hickman is getting.
(b) Lorelli's strange behavior.
(c) What will happen to Bliss in the near future.
(d) Bliss's performance in the coffin.

10. What does Reverend Hickman warn Bliss about before they see their first movie?
(a) That the theater will be full of black people.
(b) That movies are very expensive so they have to sneak in.
(c) That there will be evils in what he sees.
(d) That the theater will be full of white people.

11. What does Hickman's unexpected female visitor ultimately need?
(a) Medicine for a very bad lung infection.
(b) A place to give birth.
(c) Five hundred dollars.
(d) Seeds to save her family farm.

12. What kinds of jobs does Hickman get before he finally is able to land another musical job?
(a) Bus driver jobs.
(b) Janitorial jobs.
(c) Chauffeur jobs.
(d) Teaching jobs.

13. How did the lion tamer lose his arm?
(a) A lion bit it off.
(b) The lion tamer never lost an arm.
(c) He was only born with one arm.
(d) In a tractor accident.

14. What does the woman who gives birth promise to send after she leaves?
(a) Her new address.
(b) Money to pay for a education.
(c) Information on the child's father.
(d) Money to pay for food and a new house.

15. When does Reverend Hickman take Bliss to the circus for the first time?
(a) After they go to the movies.
(b) Before the big Juneteenth revival.
(c) When he graduates from high school.
(d) For his sixteenth birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What woman knocks on Hickman's door when he is sitting there, at the ready with guns and a rifle?

2. What does Reverend Hickman tell Bliss to do in regard to Lorelli?

3. What is the woman, who knocks on Hickman's door when he is at the ready with guns and a rifle, wearing?

4. What does the senator feel on his face as he falls into his last series of hallucinations before he dies?

5. With whom did Lorelli stay while trying to regain her sanity?

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