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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Like what animal does Reverend Hickman encourage his parishoners to continue to "inch on"?
2. What does Hickman preach will happen if you keep putting one and one together?
3. While sitting in the hospital together, what major event does Hickman remind the senator of?
4. How does Bliss breathe when locked inside the coffin?
5. What do the men do with Bliss's coffin during the large Juneteenth revival?
Short Essay Questions
1. After he is shot, what does Senator Sunraider vaguely see by his bedside?
2. Why does Bliss get to cut open the watermelon he and Sister Georgia share?
3. What is happening, mentally, to Senator Sunraider while he is in the hospital after being shot?
4. What makes Bliss so upset about the clown act at the circus?
5. In what ways does Senator Sunraider, while in his hospital bed, remember his childhood?
6. What does the senator remember as surprising him the most about the woman who interrupts the large Juneteenth service?
7. How does Bliss comfort himself when he thinks about being trapped in the coffin?
8. What great hope does Reverend Hickman continue to cling to for Senator Sunraider, even as he lay dying?
9. What advice does the reverend give Bliss about shadows and light?
10. As a boy, what did Bliss call Reverend Hickman?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the reader never learn much about the senator's assassin? Discuss at least 3 reasons why this is true and what effect it has on the reader.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss what message about religion Ellison is trying to convey, using specific quotations from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 3
There are many instances of tension in Juneteenth. Choose at least one example and discuss what literary devices Ellison uses the create this tension.
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