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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the ghost in Randall's house do with the plate of food Randall makes for him?
(a) Throws it across the room.
(b) Eats it ravenously.
(c) Gives it to the ghost sitting next to him.
(d) Seems to admire it but does not eat it.

2. Who once owned most of the area Randall's house is built on?
(a) The Lutherans.
(b) The Quakers.
(c) The Mormons.
(d) The Amish.

3. What happens to the stranger from the grocery store parking lot in the third ending?
(a) Security guards hold him down waiting for police to arrive.
(b) He is fatally shot.
(c) He is fatally stabbed.
(d) He disappears in a cloud of smoke.

4. Who lets Siddiq do some construction jobs for a time?
(a) Art Harwood.
(b) Duke Woodbin.
(c) Sean McGillicuddy.
(d) Ben Statson.

5. What does Reverend Eggleston tell Velmajean when she asks if he has any idea why she was bestowed with the powers she has?
(a) Because she is virtous.
(b) Because she has money.
(c) The Lord works in mysterious ways.
(d) It is just random.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the man from the grocery store parking lot in the first ending?

2. What does the man from the grocery store parking lot say to Velmajean about her powers in the first three of the four endings?

3. What does Randall drink at the reunion with his friends?

4. What does Randall cook for the reunion with his friends?

5. What does Uncle Pharaoh teach Mandy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises, what happens when Randall has a group of friends over that makes the presence of the ghosts in Randall's house clear?

2. How does Velmajean's pastor, Spike Eggleston, react to her new and supposedly miraculous powers?

3. Why does Randall seem to feel unsure Siddiq will come back once he leaves on a work trip?

4. Who tries to warn Velmajean that her pastor, Pastor Spike, might not have her best interests at heart?

5. What is unusual about Kenan's story The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God in terms of its structure?

6. Who is Lilith and what does Gloria Brown think of Lilith?

7. What grates on Percy Terrell's nerves about the hog in the very beginning of the story Now Why Come is That?

8. What is Gloria Brown very good at, according to the story's narrator?

9. Who does Randall begin to realize the ghosts he sees around his land and in his house were as living people?

10. What does Percy Terrell think might be the real explanation for the fact that no one else seems to be able to see the hog?

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