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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who caught a rabbit for food in the story Mamiwata?
(a) Pharaoh.
(b) Ike.
(c) Rastus.
(d) Mandy.
2. What is Velmajean's first "miracle"?
(a) She lays hands on a little girl who has been badly injured and revives her.
(b) She makes a blind man see.
(c) She walks on water.
(d) She makes a man's lost arm grow back.
3. What does the man from the grocery store parking lot say to Velmajean in the fourth ending?
(a) Go back to where you came from.
(b) You are evil.
(c) It was not meant to be like this.
(d) Scene.
4. What does the man from the grocery store parking lot say to Velmajean about her powers in the first three of the four endings?
(a) Who said it was from God?
(b) You need to praise Satan.
(c) You lied abou this from the start.
(d) I did not want to give you this power.
5. Why does Velmajean end up liking Eggleston's church?
(a) Because of how it validates all her feelings about faith.
(b) Because of the people there.
(c) Because of how it pays its congregants.
(d) Because of how the people there have already heard of her.
6. What does Mandy dream about the day she meets the man in the creek?
(a) Being beaten.
(b) Her mother dying.
(c) Dark men emerging from the water.
(d) Dogs chasing her.
7. What does Randall see in the barn one night that startles and confounds him?
(a) Images of several dead Black people.
(b) Many horses.
(c) The ghost of his mother.
(d) A collection of books.
8. What did Max Factor call the color of makeup he developed for Lena Horne?
(a) Light Egyptian.
(b) Mocha.
(c) Fake Pharoah.
(d) Latte.
9. Where did Randall live in his first year of college?
(a) Northeast Washington D.C.
(b) North Campus in Chapel Hill.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) The southside of Chicago.
10. Who originally persuades Velmajean to try a new church?
(a) Her neighbors.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Her sister.
11. What kind of cake is Gloria getting for her daughter?
(a) Vanilla.
(b) Red velvet.
(c) Carrot.
(d) Chocolate.
12. What is Velmajean's second "miracle"?
(a) Raising someone from the dead.
(b) Feeding hundreds of men with very little food.
(c) Making a blind person see.
(d) Walking on water.
13. Who lets Siddiq do some construction jobs for a time?
(a) Sean McGillicuddy.
(b) Ben Statson.
(c) Duke Woodbin.
(d) Art Harwood.
14. Who was Randall's first editor?
(a) Winnifred Jensen.
(b) Beth Hendry.
(c) Lena Stalingworth.
(d) Agnes Van Horne.
15. What does the person Mandy meets in the beginning of the story Mamiwata tell her he is doing?
(a) Eating.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Standing watch.
(d) Biding his time.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the significance Randall remembers about periwinkle?
2. What does Randall cook for the reunion with his friends?
3. What does Randall do when he first discovers a ghost in his house in the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises?
4. Who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
5. When is the first time Velmajean begins to feel afraid rather than blessed?
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