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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is sitting and talking on the porch when Bliss crawls underneath it?
(a) Mrs. Proctor and Blue's mother.
(b) Reverend Hickman and Mrs. Proctor.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) Blue's mother and Reverend Hickman.

3. What fact is Bliss most interested to know about the circus clowns?
(a) Why the are acting so silly.
(b) How much they are paid.
(c) If they are black or white.
(d) How he can become one himself.

4. Where does Bliss try to fall asleep the second time at Sister Georgia's house?
(a) In Sister Georgia's bed.
(b) In the bathtub.
(c) On the front porch.
(d) In the basement.

5. What kind of beer does Charlie drink?
(a) Cerveza.
(b) Chock.
(c) Corona.
(d) Coors.

6. What two kinds of memories collide as the senator falls into his last series of hallucinations before he dies?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Political and childhood.
(c) Ones from heaven and ones from hell.
(d) Imaginary and foreign.

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

8. What does the senator do (in his final hallucination sequence) after he jumps off of the large moving object?
(a) Lay still and catch his breath.
(b) Sink through the earth into hell.
(c) Fly into outer space.
(d) Fly into the night.

9. Where did Lorelli go to try to regain her sanity?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Peru.
(c) California.
(d) Europe.

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

11. What does Reverend Hickman tell Bliss to do in regard to Lorelli?
(a) Forget her.
(b) Remember her.
(c) Mention her in their next sermon.
(d) Honor her.

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

13. What does Reverend Hickman describe himself as a tamer of?
(a) The weak.
(b) Sinners.
(c) Humans.
(d) The poor.

14. Why does Reverend Hickman try to stay awake in the hospital with the senator?
(a) Just in case the senator wakes up and wants to talk.
(b) He doesn't want to miss another minute with his adopted son.
(c) He is so stressed out that he cannot sleep.
(d) He is afraid the assassin is going to come back to try to finish the senator off.

15. How does Hickman spend the night after the baby is born?
(a) Rocking and trying to figure out the situation.
(b) Outside, again armed with his guns.
(c) Sleeping on the couch.
(d) Curled up in bed with the woman and the new baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman who visits Hickman unexpectedly ask for?

2. What does Reverend Hickman promise to do with Bliss, if he is good, the week after the chaotic Juneteenth revival?

3. How does Hickman find out that the senator's life may be in danger?

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

5. In the senator's final hallucination, what kind of person threatens to expose his true identity and background?

(see the answer keys)

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