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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 does the person who interrupts the large Juneteenth ceremony claim?
(a) That she is pregnant.
(b) That she has seen the Lord.
(c) That she met Jesus a minute ago.
(d) That Bliss is her son.

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

3. Which character does Senator Sunraider ask for from the hospital?
(a) The president.
(b) His mother.
(c) Reverend Hickman.
(d) Sister Laly.

4. What kind of job does A.Z. have?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Firefighter.
(c) Reverend.
(d) Hunter.

5. What does Reverend Hickman compare fractured slave families to?
(a) Jesus's family.
(b) People in prison.
(c) Chopped up potatoes.
(d) This is a trick question; he doesn't compare them to anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. Like what animal does Reverend Hickman encourage his parishoners to continue to "inch on"?

2. How many people did Senator Sunraider sometimes preach to in his childhood?

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

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

5. How does Senator Sunraider see things once he has been attacked?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the group turned away from Senator Sunraider's office in D.C.?

2. After he is shot, what does Senator Sunraider vaguely see by his bedside?

3. While lying on his deathbed, in what ways does the senator remember about the time he spent making movies?

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

5. What does Bliss's obsession with the image of the movie actress symbolize?

6. What great hope does Reverend Hickman continue to cling to for Senator Sunraider, even as he lay dying?

7. How do Bliss, Donelson, and Karp make their way across the country?

8. Why does Bliss think his teddy bear is so brave?

9. Why does Reverend Hickman claim that the senator cannot call the object he was in a coffin?

10. Why does the group of elderly churchgoers go to Washington, D.C.?

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