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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10 (Chapter 53-Epilogue).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Battraville say was the first thing the Marines did in Haiti?
(a) Destroy the palaces.
(b) Take the fetishes from the temples.
(c) Take $60 million from the banks.
(d) Destroy the libraries.

2. Why does PaPaLaBas say that Osiris had to record his dance?
(a) To feed her brother.
(b) To take power.
(c) To assuage the gods.
(d) To feed the spirits.

3. What advice does Black Herman give PaPaLaBas?
(a) Improvise.
(b) Take inventory.
(c) Concentrate.
(d) Imitate.

4. What does Reed say the Book gave to Hugues de Payens?
(a) The sacred spirit.
(b) Recipes for virtue.
(c) All the old dance moves.
(d) The worst of itself.

5. What does Reed say the Teutonic Knights do instead of raiding the Temples of Heathens?
(a) Pollute their alters.
(b) Spill their blood.
(c) Enact their blood.
(d) Demand tribute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reed say is America’s astrological rising sign?

2. What is the name of the black freighter?

3. What does Reed say Africans have fallen in love with, in North America?

4. Why does Black Herman succeed where PaPaLaBas failed?

5. Who does Ishmael Reed credit with developing the “grapevine telegraph?

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