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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. Where does Reverend Eggleston suggest Velmajean move to?
(a) A hotel.
(b) Her son's house.
(c) His house.
(d) A nursing home.

2. 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 disappears in a cloud of smoke.
(c) He is fatally stabbed.
(d) He is fatally shot.

3. Where was Randall's first job out of college?
(a) Tout Va Bien.
(b) Glamour.
(c) Vanity Fair.
(d) Town and Country.

4. What is Randall's relationship to Inder?
(a) They are brothers.
(b) They are ex-lovers and current friends.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are uncle and nephew.

5. What does Gloria Brown do for a living?
(a) She is a fortune teller.
(b) She is a pilot.
(c) She is an undertaker.
(d) She is a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Randall fear meeting at his reunion with his friends?

3. What is one movie Gloria has seen that depicts tense situations in the military?

4. What book concerning Egypt did Randall read in high school?

5. Who originally persuades Velmajean to try a new church?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do you think Kenan is trying to insinuate about the origin of Velmajean's powers at the end of the story?

4. Why does Gloria Brown particularly worry about the safety of her daughter Tamar?

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

6. In the end of the story Resurrection Hardware or, Lard and Promises, what does Randall begin to wonder about the ghosts?

7. What does Pharaoh say when Mandy tells him and the others about Mamiwata?

8. What does Gloria Brown dream of in the Story Ezekiel Saw the Wheel?

9. What does Gloria Brown do for a living, and what has she learned about dealing with customers?

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

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