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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Reverend Hickman describe himself as a tamer of?
(a) Humans.
(b) The poor.
(c) Sinners.
(d) The weak.
2. What kind of beer does Charlie drink?
(a) Chock.
(b) Coors.
(c) Cerveza.
(d) Corona.
3. How long does Bliss start disappearing for after he and Reverend Hickman go to the circus?
(a) A few hours at a time.
(b) Weeks and weeks.
(c) Months and months.
(d) A few days at a time.
4. What do the clowns use to make their faces so dark?
(a) Ground up dried fruit.
(b) Ashes from a fire pit.
(c) Burned cork.
(d) Ashes from a bonfire.
5. Why does Reverend Hickman tell Bliss that he should not get used to going to movies in the theater?
(a) Because they cannot afford it.
(b) Because ministers should not be seen in such places.
(c) Because the movies they can afford to see are only in French.
(d) Because the movie theater is very far away.
6. Who is Lorelli?
(a) Bliss's long-lost sister.
(b) A woman at the church who wants to become a nun.
(c) The woman who interrupted the Juneteenth revival.
(d) Bliss's new girlfriend.
7. In the senator's final hallucination sequence, what does he remember a young woman telling him about love?
(a) It's named after Mr. Babit.
(b) It runs fast like a rabit.
(c) When you find it, you should nab it.
(d) It ain't nothing but a habit.
8. Where does Bliss originally go to sleep in Sister Georgia's house?
(a) In the basement.
(b) Out in the guest house.
(c) In the guest bedroom.
(d) On the living room sofa.
9. What does Reverend Hickman warn Bliss about before they see their first movie?
(a) That there will be evils in what he sees.
(b) That movies are very expensive so they have to sneak in.
(c) That the theater will be full of white people.
(d) That the theater will be full of black people.
10. Who is sitting and talking on the porch when Bliss crawls underneath it?
(a) Reverend Hickman and Mrs. Proctor.
(b) Mrs. Proctor and Blue's mother.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) Blue's mother and Reverend Hickman.
11. What drink does Bliss drink when Hickman returns after the incident at the Juneteenth revival?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Watermelon juice.
(c) Iced tea.
(d) Cold lemonade.
12. When does Reverend Hickman take Bliss to the circus for the first time?
(a) After they go to the movies.
(b) Before the big Juneteenth revival.
(c) For his sixteenth birthday.
(d) When he graduates from high school.
13. What does the unexpected pregnant woman say she is trying to return to Hickman by leaving her baby with him?
(a) The curse he put on her years ago.
(b) Nothing; she leaves without saying a word.
(c) His murdered brother.
(d) The money she stole.
14. Why was the reverend once sitting in a lamp-lit room with guns and a rifle?
(a) Because he was holding people hostage.
(b) Because he was waiting for a lynch mob to come and get him.
(c) Because he was thinking about trying to kill himself.
(d) Because he was waiting for the police to raid his apartment.
15. What action of the little boy in the senator's final hallucination angers the senator?
(a) He keeps punching the senator.
(b) He only says cuss words.
(c) He keeps tripping everyone who walks by.
(d) He refuses to speak.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Bliss go to when he disappears from Reverend Hickman as a boy?
2. What does the senator do (in his final hallucination sequence) after he jumps off of the large moving object?
3. What advice does the lion tamer give Bliss outside of the circus tent?
4. What does Hickman's unexpected female visitor give Hickman permission to do?
5. Why doesn't Hickman's jazz band take him back?
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