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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Senator Sunraider's childhood name?

2. According to Donelson, why does Bliss travel so lightly?

3. What does the person who disrupts the large Juneteenth revival ceremony look like?

4. What signal does one of the coffin bearers give Bliss to let him know that he's not alone inside the coffin?

5. When does Juneteenth take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bliss, Donelson, and Karp make their way across the country?

2. While lying on his deathbed, in what ways does the senator remember about the time he spent making movies?

3. Why does Hickman want Bliss to rise out of a coffin during their services?

4. Why does Reverend Hickman claim that the senator cannot call the object he was in a coffin?

5. What is happening, mentally, to Senator Sunraider while he is in the hospital after being shot?

6. What hallucination does Senator Sunraider have while giving his speech on the senate floor?

7. Who does Lorelli think she is after she returns from Europe?

8. What does Lorelli have a history of doing?

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

10. Why does Sister Georgia think she is most qualified to take care of Bliss after the incident at the Juneteenth revival?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Sister Georgia and Sister Bearmasher.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the tone of Juneteenth. What is the tone for the novel overall? What three literary devices does Ellison use to create this tone? Make sure to use direct evidence from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the ending of Juneteenth and how the ending of the novel ties into at least one larger theme of the text.

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