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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bliss cry after he is taken from the Juneteenth revival?
(a) Because he wants to be reunited with Reverend Hickman.
(b) Because he didn't get his ice cream.
(c) Because he left his teddy in the coffin.
(d) Because the crazed woman broke his arm.

2. What action of the little boy in the senator's final hallucination angers the senator?
(a) He keeps tripping everyone who walks by.
(b) He refuses to speak.
(c) He keeps punching the senator.
(d) He only says cuss words.

3. Why does Bliss want money at the circus?
(a) For the ferris wheel.
(b) For cotton candy.
(c) For a stuffed animal.
(d) For ice cream.

4. What does the woman who gives birth promise to send after she leaves?
(a) Money to pay for a education.
(b) Information on the child's father.
(c) Her new address.
(d) Money to pay for food and a new house.

5. Who is Sister Georgia?
(a) One of the deacons.
(b) Bliss's mother.
(c) The woman who takes Bliss away from the Juneteenth revival.
(d) Bliss's aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. After visiting the circus, where does Bliss start going to see movies?

2. What advice does the lion tamer give Bliss outside of the circus tent?

3. What is the senator's old friend's Charlie's full name?

4. Where had Lorelli been abandoned as a child?

5. In the senator's final hallucination sequence, what does he remember a young woman telling him about love?

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