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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 kind of events does Laly host in her home for Bliss?
(a) Classes.
(b) Fundraisers.
(c) Auditions.
(d) Holiday tea parties.

2. How does Bliss remember himself, in flashbacks, while he was with Laly?
(a) Angry.
(b) Confused.
(c) Violent.
(d) Gentle.

3. How does Senator Sunraider see things once he has been attacked?
(a) In black and white.
(b) He sees things but cannot hear anything.
(c) Everything turns red.
(d) In slow motion.

4. What kind of dialogue is used to describe Senator Sunraider's childhood?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

5. What object is the animal carrying that Senator Sunraider thinks he sees while giving his last speech?
(a) A dead rabbit.
(b) A knife.
(c) An olive branch.
(d) A shield.

Short Answer Questions

1. The religious revivals of this time period served as what kinds of events?

2. What does the person who disrupts the large Juneteenth revival ceremony look like?

3. Who is Senator Sunraider's assassin working with?

4. Who is Sister Bearmasher?

5. With what term is Bowlegs unfamiliar?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the boy in the senator's final hallucination tell him?

2. How much of their losses are Laly and the townspeople able to recover once they discover that Bliss, Donelson, and Karp are frauds?

3. Why does Sister Georgia whisk Bliss away from the Juneteenth revival after Reverend Hickman and Sister Bearmasher take the crazy woman to jail?

4. How does Hickman encourage Senator Sunraider to come to peace with the fact that he was preaching at such a young age?

5. Why does Bliss get to cut open the watermelon he and Sister Georgia share?

6. What does Senator Sunraider see after he has been shot?

7. What does Hickman consider his permanent home?

8. How do Bliss, Donelson, and Karp make their way across the country?

9. Why does Reverend Hickman claim that the senator cannot call the object he was in a coffin?

10. How does Reverend Hickman feel about the Juneteenth holiday?

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