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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. How long does Bliss start disappearing for after he and Reverend Hickman go to the circus?
(a) A few days at a time.
(b) Weeks and weeks.
(c) A few hours at a time.
(d) Months and months.

6. What is the senator's old friend's Charlie's full name?
(a) Choc Charlie.
(b) Charlie Gibson.
(c) Chewing Charlie.
(d) Crocodile Charlie.

7. Why does Bliss change beds in Sister Georgia's house?
(a) Because he was too cold in his first bed.
(b) Because the first bed was too creaky and loud.
(c) Because he had a nightmare.
(d) Because the first bed is too small.

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

9. Who is Lorelli?
(a) A woman at the church who wants to become a nun.
(b) The woman who interrupted the Juneteenth revival.
(c) Bliss's new girlfriend.
(d) Bliss's long-lost sister.

10. Why is Bliss banished back to his original sleeping place at Sister Georgia's house?
(a) Because he was caught taking a sip of whiskey from the liquor cabinet.
(b) Because he snored too loudly.
(c) Because he was trying to see Sister Georgia naked.
(d) Because he was caught looking at pornographic magazines.

11. While lying in his hospital bed reminiscing about the past with Reverend Hickman, how does the senator know he is there?
(a) Because he can sense his presence.
(b) Because he is holding his hand.
(c) Because he can hear him.
(d) Because he can see him.

12. What fact about elephants is Bliss surprised to learn Reverend Hickman knows?
(a) That they have a kind of funeral service for dead elephants.
(b) The difference between African and Asian elephants.
(c) That they have good memories.
(d) That they have places to bury their dead.

13. Why does Bliss crawl under the porch after Reverend Hickman returns after the Juneteenth revival?
(a) So he can stay cool.
(b) So he can take a nap.
(c) So he can get out of doing chores.
(d) So he can read his pornographic magazines.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his final hallucination sequence, from what moving object does the senator jump off of?

2. What does Sister Georgia offer Bliss to help him stop crying?

3. In his final hallucination sequence, what are the men gathering to do at the club house?

4. What action of the little boy in the senator's final hallucination angers the senator?

5. What does Hickman's unexpected female visitor give Hickman permission to do?

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