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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 27-30).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused New Jersey youths to be fired from their job?
(a) Singing.
(b) Proselytizing the Jes Grew.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Drinking.

2. Where does the Mayor go to at the beginning of the book?
(a) His office.
(b) The infirmary.
(c) The police station.
(d) The bar.

3. When were the Knights Templar founded?
(a) 1118 A.D.
(b) 504 B.C.
(c) 981 A.D.
(d) 421 A.D.

4. What do Protestant editorial writers compare the Jes Grew to?
(a) A gutter.
(b) A shark.
(c) A madhouse.
(d) A boll weevil.

5. How does Reed characterize the outbreak of Jes Grew?
(a) Sporadic.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Incremental.
(d) Predictable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the danger if the Jes Grew becomes pandemic?

2. Where do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould look for the anthology that contains the Jes Grew?

3. What are elders trying to regulate?

4. What does Ishmael Reed compare Hinkle Von Vampton to?

5. What does Safecracker Gould say Major Young would be doing ‘if he were a real black man’?

(see the answer key)

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