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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Reverend Hickman describe himself as a tamer of?
(a) The poor.
(b) Sinners.
(c) The weak.
(d) Humans.

2. Why does Reverend Hickman try to stay awake in the hospital with the senator?
(a) Just in case the senator wakes up and wants to talk.
(b) He doesn't want to miss another minute with his adopted son.
(c) He is so stressed out that he cannot sleep.
(d) He is afraid the assassin is going to come back to try to finish the senator off.

3. In the senator's final hallucination, what kind of person threatens to expose his true identity and background?
(a) An old white woman.
(b) A mean old black man.
(c) A mean old white man.
(d) An old black woman.

4. In his final hallucination, what does the banner being carried by a plane read?
(a) "Welcome to the World Fair!"
(b) "Black People Aren't Welcome Here."
(c) "Congratulations, Senator Sunraider!"
(d) "Niggers Stay Away from the Polls."

5. What two characters appear in the senator's final hallucination sequence to tel the story of Brer Rabbit?
(a) Hickman and Layla.
(b) Charlie and Lolita.
(c) Charlie and Donelson.
(d) Hickman and Donelson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Lorelli been abandoned as a child?

2. What does the woman who gives birth at Hickman's home say the baby is a reminder of?

3. What is the woman, who knocks on Hickman's door when he is at the ready with guns and a rifle, wearing?

4. What are the waiters serving the club guests in the senator's final hallucination sequence?

5. What does Reverend Hickman describe as the way the lion tamer is able to control his lions?

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