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

2. What is the name of the person who assassinates Senator Sunraider?
(a) Snape.
(b) McCarthy.
(c) Severen.
(d) Jameson.

3. What can Bliss see inside his tiny coffin?
(a) His glow-in-the-dark stickers.
(b) The coffin lining.
(c) Lights from outside.
(d) Nothing at all.

4. How does Bliss know when to rise from the coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?
(a) He has a little timer that goes off.
(b) Reverend Hickman gives him a verbal cue.
(c) He knows to do it when everything is quiet.
(d) He rises when the choir starts to sing "Amazing Grace."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Senator Sunraider's assassin standing?

2. Who blocks the group's ability to see Senator Sunraider in D.C.?

3. What does Bliss find himself torn between after the large Juneteenth revival is interrupted?

4. What does Hickman think might help the senator while he is lying in his hospital bed?

5. What does Reverend Hickman compare fractured slave families to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hickman consider his permanent home?

2. At what moment does Hickman realize his life is really going to change?

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

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

5. After Reverend Hickman pulls Bliss off of the little clown outside of the tent, what is all over Bliss's hands?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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