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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the clowns use to make their faces so dark?
(a) Ashes from a bonfire.
(b) Ashes from a fire pit.
(c) Ground up dried fruit.
(d) Burned cork.

2. What does Hickman do when he realizes his unexpected female guest is going into labor?
(a) Dress her in his dead mother's nightgown.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) Take her to the back bedroom.
(d) Helps her deliver the baby.

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

4. Although they don't know Bliss is hiding underneath, what are the people on the porch talking about when Bliss is eavesdropping?
(a) What will happen to Bliss in the near future.
(b) How old Reverend Hickman is getting.
(c) Bliss's performance in the coffin.
(d) Lorelli's strange behavior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink does Bliss drink when Hickman returns after the incident at the Juneteenth revival?

2. What does the woman who gives birth promise to send after she leaves?

3. After the incident at the large Juneteenth revival, when does Bliss get to see Reverend Hickman again?

4. Why was the reverend once sitting in a lamp-lit room with guns and a rifle?

5. What does Brer Bear think Brear Rabbit's tail has turned into (in the senator's final hallucination sequence)?

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