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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. Who removes the person who interrupts the large Juneteenth revival ceremony from the service?
(a) She removes herself.
(b) The police.
(c) Paramedics.
(d) Reverend Hickman and Sister Bearmasher.

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

3. What signal does one of the coffin bearers give Bliss to let him know that he's not alone inside the coffin?
(a) He sends him a text message.
(b) He knocks on it.
(c) He whispers things only Bliss can hear.
(d) He slips him a little note.

4. Who is the author of Juneteenth?
(a) Harvey Milk.
(b) Ernest Hemmingway.
(c) Denzel Washington.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

5. Who is Laly?
(a) Bliss's first real love.
(b) Bliss's sister.
(c) The senator's hospital doctor.
(d) Reverend Hickman's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Senator Sunraider's first name?

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

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

4. Who does the group in D.C. try to tell their story to?

5. Where is Senator Sunraider's assassin standing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Revered Hickman react when the newspaper in D.C. tells him and his group that their story is not interesting?

3. How does Bliss comfort himself when he thinks about being trapped in the coffin?

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

5. What internal conflict does Bliss's beating of the little clown symbolize?

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

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

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

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

10. In what ways does Senator Sunraider, while in his hospital bed, remember his childhood?

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