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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Senator Sunraider attempt to do after he is attacked?
(a) Maintain consciousness.
(b) Hid his wounds.
(c) Finish his speech.
(d) Apprehend his assassin.

2. What analogy does Ellison use to describe Laly and Bliss's love?
(a) Like two dolphins.
(b) Like two snakes.
(c) Like two birds.
(d) Like two lions.

3. What does the person who disrupts the large Juneteenth revival ceremony look like?
(a) A black woman in a wheelchair.
(b) A white woman with unruy hair.
(c) A Latina woman with long, beautiful braids.
(d) A white woman with severe burn scars.

4. What color lining does Bliss's coffin (used during the large Juneteenth revival) have?
(a) Baby blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Pink.

5. What does the young senator think his only weapon is as a child?
(a) All of these answers are correct.
(b) His religion.
(c) The power of his words.
(d) His belief in God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Juneteenth?

2. What does Hickman think might help the senator while he is lying in his hospital bed?

3. What color Bible does the young senator hold when he comes out of the coffin during revivals as a child?

4. Where is the person who interrupts the large Juneteenth revival ceremony ultimately taken?

5. What kinds of traditions does the Juneteenth holiday end up being connected to?

(see the answer key)

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