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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 was Senator Sunraider's first real job?
(a) Delivering newspapers.
(b) Giving sermons with his father.
(c) Painting.
(d) Picking cotton.

2. What does Bliss try to imagine to keep himself calm while inside the coffin?
(a) Jesus.
(b) His mother.
(c) God.
(d) Fresh air and lights.

3. What does Bliss hear while he is inside his coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?
(a) The sounds of the doors locking because the service is over.
(b) The sermon coming to a fever pitch.
(c) The choir singing off-key.
(d) His mother comforting him.

4. Where is Senator Sunraider's assassin standing?
(a) In the Visitor's Gallery.
(b) In the doorway.
(c) In the roof beams.
(d) Below the stage.

5. What does Hickman preach will happen if you keep putting one and one together?
(a) You'll just keep counting forever.
(b) You never get to see the big picture.
(c) You'll get a million.
(d) People will burn out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Laly?

2. According to Donelson, why does Bliss travel so lightly?

3. What do Laly and Bliss do while on a picnic lunch one Sunday afternoon?

4. How does Bliss remember feeling inside of the tiny coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the reverend wish for Bliss as he sits watching him in his hospital bed?

3. What moves Sister Georgia in particular about Bliss's life?

4. Who does the young boy in the senator's final hallucination represent?

5. Who is Brer Rabbit?

6. How does Reverend Hickman use Bliss during his sermons?

7. While lying on his deathbed, in what ways does the senator remember about the time he spent making movies?

8. Why is Bliss so obsessed about the image of the movie actress?

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

10. In what ways does Senator Sunraider, while in his hospital bed, remember his childhood?

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