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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bliss want money at the circus?
(a) For ice cream.
(b) For the ferris wheel.
(c) For cotton candy.
(d) For a stuffed animal.

2. Why does Bliss cry after he is taken from the Juneteenth revival?
(a) Because he left his teddy in the coffin.
(b) Because he didn't get his ice cream.
(c) Because the crazed woman broke his arm.
(d) Because he wants to be reunited with Reverend Hickman.

3. What are the waiters serving the club guests in the senator's final hallucination sequence?
(a) Fried chicken and watermelon.
(b) Salads made out of weird vegetables.
(c) Drinks with little umbrellas in them.
(d) Rabbit sandwiches.

4. What does the woman who gives birth promise to send after she leaves?
(a) Information on the child's father.
(b) Money to pay for a education.
(c) Her new address.
(d) Money to pay for food and a new house.

5. 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 the police to raid his apartment.
(c) Because he was waiting for a lynch mob to come and get him.
(d) Because he was thinking about trying to kill himself.

6. What does Hickman's unexpected female visitor ultimately need?
(a) A place to give birth.
(b) Seeds to save her family farm.
(c) Five hundred dollars.
(d) Medicine for a very bad lung infection.

7. Who is Lorelli?
(a) Bliss's new girlfriend.
(b) Bliss's long-lost sister.
(c) A woman at the church who wants to become a nun.
(d) The woman who interrupted the Juneteenth revival.

8. When Brer Bear catches up with Brer Rabbit in the senator's final hallucination sequence, what is Brer Rabbit doing?
(a) Nothing; he is just standing there looking lost and confused.
(b) Dying of hunger.
(c) Bleeding.
(d) Having sex with all the local girl rabbits.

9. What kind of business did Lorelli open in New Orleans?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A hair shop.
(c) A laundromat.
(d) A restaurant.

10. With whom does Bliss start to hang out with more and more after seeing the circus?
(a) Catholics.
(b) Nuns.
(c) Girls.
(d) White friends.

11. How does Hickman spend the night after the baby is born?
(a) Curled up in bed with the woman and the new baby.
(b) Sleeping on the couch.
(c) Rocking and trying to figure out the situation.
(d) Outside, again armed with his guns.

12. What is the senator's old friend's Charlie's full name?
(a) Crocodile Charlie.
(b) Charlie Gibson.
(c) Chewing Charlie.
(d) Choc Charlie.

13. In his final hallucination, what does the banner being carried by a plane read?
(a) "Welcome to the World Fair!"
(b) "Black People Aren't Welcome Here."
(c) "Congratulations, Senator Sunraider!"
(d) "Niggers Stay Away from the Polls."

14. When does Reverend Hickman take Bliss to the circus for the first time?
(a) When he graduates from high school.
(b) After they go to the movies.
(c) For his sixteenth birthday.
(d) Before the big Juneteenth revival.

15. Who is Sister Georgia?
(a) Bliss's mother.
(b) The woman who takes Bliss away from the Juneteenth revival.
(c) Bliss's aunt.
(d) One of the deacons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lorelli known for?

2. Why does Bliss change beds in Sister Georgia's house?

3. What does Bliss do when he comes across the small clown outside of the circus tent?

4. What enthralls Bliss about the movie theater?

5. What does Hickman do when he realizes his unexpected female guest is going into labor?

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