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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8 (Chapters 50-51).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What modern figure does PaPaLaBas say Isis corresponds to?
(a) The girl with the glasses.
(b) The girl with the red dress on.
(c) The girl who listens to her parents.
(d) The girl who is easy to get.

2. What is the name of the literary device used repeatedly in Harlem Tom Toms?
(a) Rhyme.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Apostrophe.

3. How are the times described at the beginning of Chapter 53?
(a) The end of the good times.
(b) The beginning of a new age.
(c) The end of the road.
(d) The dark time in a transition.

4. What remedy did the church have for underground worshippers of Osiris?
(a) Beatings.
(b) Exile.
(c) Execution.
(d) Forced conversion.

5. What does Ishmael Reed compare Hinkle Von Vampton to?
(a) A Hieronymus Bosch painting.
(b) A Blake poem.
(c) A horseman of the apocalypse.
(d) A poem by James Weldon Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did James Frazer call the Black Mud Sound?

2. What does Hinkle Von Vampton accuse his boss of?

3. What is everything made of at the Wallflower Order headquarters?

4. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?

5. To whom do the Knights Templar answer?

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