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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where had Lorelli been abandoned as a child?
(a) At the hospital.
(b) At the altar.
(c) At a grocery store.
(d) At a foster care home.

3. 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.

4. What does the woman who gives birth at Hickman's home say the baby is a reminder of?
(a) The one night they shared together.
(b) His love of all things made by God.
(c) His love of children.
(d) Hickman's ability to forgive.

5. While sitting in the hospital with the senator, where does Reverend Hickman believe Death to be?
(a) Nearby.
(b) Far away.
(c) In the future.
(d) Inside of himself, not inside of the senator.

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

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

8. What burning question does Bliss finally ask Hickman when they see each other again after the Juneteenth revival?
(a) If he did a good job at the service.
(b) If the crazy woman really was his mother.
(c) When he can get his teddy back.
(d) When will they be going for ice cream.

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

10. What does the senator feel on his face as he falls into his last series of hallucinations before he dies?
(a) Extrememe heat from his fever.
(b) A breeze.
(c) A woman kissing him.
(d) A cold, damp cloth.

11. In the senator's final hallucination, what kind of person threatens to expose his true identity and background?
(a) A mean old black man.
(b) An old white woman.
(c) A mean old white man.
(d) An old black woman.

12. What does Hickman tell Bliss about the person who interrupted the Juneteenth revival?
(a) That she is not his mother.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) That she has died.
(d) That she is from France.

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

14. What do the clowns use to make their faces so dark?
(a) Burned cork.
(b) Ashes from a fire pit.
(c) Ground up dried fruit.
(d) Ashes from a bonfire.

15. What caused Lorelli to lose her mind?
(a) Poison.
(b) Madness.
(c) Grief.
(d) Illness/A fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the senator do (in his final hallucination sequence) after he jumps off of the large moving object?

2. What two characters appear in the senator's final hallucination sequence to tel the story of Brer Rabbit?

3. Why does Bliss know he won't be found by Reverend Hickman?

4. After the incident at the large Juneteenth revival, when does Bliss get to see Reverend Hickman again?

5. Why is Bliss banished back to his original sleeping place at Sister Georgia's house?

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