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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bliss do when he comes across the small clown outside of the circus tent?
(a) He talks to him.
(b) He offers him some of his secret whiskey.
(c) He begins punching him.
(d) He watches him in secret.

2. Who is sitting and talking on the porch when Bliss crawls underneath it?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Reverend Hickman and Mrs. Proctor.
(c) Mrs. Proctor and Blue's mother.
(d) Blue's mother and Reverend Hickman.

3. Where does Bliss go to when he disappears from Reverend Hickman as a boy?
(a) To meetings of another church.
(b) To the army recruitment office.
(c) To hang out with his friends.
(d) To the ocean.

4. Where did Lorelli go to try to regain her sanity?
(a) Peru.
(b) Europe.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) California.

5. Why does Bliss know he won't be found by Reverend Hickman?
(a) Because he is very far away.
(b) Because he considered Reverend Hickman stupid.
(c) Because he moves around so often.
(d) Because he is in a white neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of baby did Lorelli take with her to New Orleans?

2. Who does Reverend Hickman ask to help him find Bliss when he disappears?

3. In his final hallucination sequence, what are the men gathering to do at the club house?

4. What does Reverend Hickman promise to do with Bliss, if he is good, the week after the chaotic Juneteenth revival?

5. Why does Bliss crawl under the porch after Reverend Hickman returns after the Juneteenth revival?

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