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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 rhyme does Bowlegs create to make fun of Bliss?
(a) Bliss, Bliss, Cat piss miss.
(b) Blis, Bliss, always amiss.
(c) Bliss, Bliss, he's a siss.
(d) He didn't create a rhyme.

2. What do Laly and Bliss do while on a picnic lunch one Sunday afternoon?
(a) Get into a major fight.
(b) Make love.
(c) Steal a car.
(d) Run away together.

3. What does Hickman preach will happen if you keep putting one and one together?
(a) People will burn out.
(b) You'll get a million.
(c) You'll just keep counting forever.
(d) You never get to see the big picture.

4. Where is Senator Sunraider's assassin standing?
(a) In the roof beams.
(b) Below the stage.
(c) In the Visitor's Gallery.
(d) In the doorway.

5. When he sees Hickman by his bedside, what does the senator want from him?
(a) An apology.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) To say what he wants and then leave.
(d) Just to talk like old times.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Senator Sunraider's wife respond to news of the shooting?

3. What financial reward does the young senator get for popping out of the coffin at the appropriate time?

4. What item does the young senator demand be in the coffin with him?

5. What kind of dialogue is used to describe Senator Sunraider's childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. As a boy, what did Bliss call Reverend Hickman?

2. Why does Bliss get to cut open the watermelon he and Sister Georgia share?

3. How much of their losses are Laly and the townspeople able to recover once they discover that Bliss, Donelson, and Karp are frauds?

4. Who does the young boy in the senator's final hallucination represent?

5. In the final chapter of the novel, how is it clear that the senator is in a hallucinatory state?

6. What has Lorelli done to make others call the authorities?

7. As he struggles to stay awake while sitting at the senator's bedside, what does the reverend wonder?

8. What happens to Bliss, Donelson, and Karp when Laly and the other townspeople discover that their movie-making venture is a fraud?

9. What does Senator Sunraider see after he has been shot?

10. What does Hickman think to himself about being given Bliss?

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