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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of traditional preaching style do Bliss and Reverend Hickman have?
(a) Lecture.
(b) Music-based.
(c) Call and response.
(d) Participatory.

2. What promise does Bliss make to Laly?
(a) That he will give her a brand new house.
(b) That he will cast her in a movie.
(c) That he will get her pregnant so she can have a baby.
(d) That he will marry her.

3. How many people did Senator Sunraider sometimes preach to in his childhood?
(a) One dozen.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Five thousand.
(d) One hundred.

4. What secret object does the young senator always sneak into the coffin he hides in during church services?
(a) His jacks.
(b) A picture of his mother.
(c) None.
(d) His lucky rock.

5. What items does Bliss have with him in the coffin before the Juneteenth revival?
(a) His Bible.
(b) His stuffed animals.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) His stuffed animals and his Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the large Juneteenth revival, who lifts Bliss into the coffin?

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

3. What does the person who interrupts the large Juneteenth ceremony claim Bliss's real name is?

4. What does the senator suggest Reverend Hickman might have otherwise done with his life?

5. What kind of events does Laly host in her home for Bliss?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Senator Sunraider initially think causes the chandelier in the Senate to come crashing down?

2. When Senator Sunraider is remembering being bullied as a child, he described himself as reproaching the bully with "all the four horses galloping in my eyes." To what horses is he referring?

3. What analogies does Reverend Hickman use to explain the two extremes of the nature of men as Senator Sunraider lay dying in his hospital bed?

4. What does the reverend wish for Bliss as he sits watching him in his hospital bed?

5. What does Hickman consider his permanent home?

6. Why does Hickman want Bliss to rise out of a coffin during their services?

7. How does Hickman encourage Senator Sunraider to come to peace with the fact that he was preaching at such a young age?

8. Why is Bliss so obsessed about the image of the movie actress?

9. What makes Bliss so upset about the clown act at the circus?

10. Where does the term "Juneteenth" come from?

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