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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 food reward does the young senator get for popping out of the coffin at the appropriate time?
(a) No reward.
(b) Vanilla ice cream.
(c) A hamburger.
(d) A taste of the church wine.

2. Why does the Senator not physically fight back to bullies during his childhood?
(a) He is in a wheelchair.
(b) His religion won't allow it.
(c) He is too scrawny.
(d) He always ends up losing so he just stops trying.

3. What was Senator Sunraider's first real job?
(a) Delivering newspapers.
(b) Picking cotton.
(c) Painting.
(d) Giving sermons with his father.

4. Who is Bowlegs?
(a) The senator's godfather.
(b) The senator's dog.
(c) The bully who starts a fight with Bliss.
(d) The nickname the senator had as a child.

5. What does Bliss hear while he is inside his coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?
(a) The sermon coming to a fever pitch.
(b) His mother comforting him.
(c) The sounds of the doors locking because the service is over.
(d) The choir singing off-key.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rhyme does Bowlegs create to make fun of Bliss?

2. What does the person who disrupts the large Juneteenth revival ceremony look like?

3. What does Senator Sunraider do to block out the visions he is having while giving his last speech?

4. Who is Laly?

5. What does Hickman say to Senator Sunraider's assassin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What hallucination does Senator Sunraider have while giving his speech on the senate floor?

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

4. Who is Brer Rabbit?

5. How does Reverend Hickman feel about the Juneteenth holiday?

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

7. How does the senator remember his costume feeling as he lay in the coffin waiting for his cue?

8. What does Lorelli have a history of doing?

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

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

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