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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has the Wallflower Order figured out how to undermine the Jes Grew?
(a) By buying its followers’ loyalty for the Wallflower Order.
(b) By starving it of money and musicians.
(c) By educating people in European philosophy.
(d) By shipping sufferers to Africa.

2. What did Osiris ban?
(a) Cannibalism.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Tyranny.
(d) Foreign travel.

3. Who is running for President on the Jes Grew ticket?
(a) Django Reinhardt.
(b) Cab Calloway.
(c) Dizzy Gillespie.
(d) Lois Armstrong.

4. What did James Frazer call the Black Mud Sound?
(a) Intellectual and rarefied.
(b) Earthy and sensual.
(c) Lewd and profligate.
(d) Vulgar and offensive.

5. How many of the Knights Templar were slain in 1307?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 50,000
(d) 150,000.

6. Why does Hinkle Von Vampton need Nathan Brown to write for the Benign Monster?
(a) To give it legitimacy.
(b) To give it verve.
(c) To give it guts.
(d) To give it class.

7. What does Buddy Jackson’s story consist of, when he explains how he became interested in the Book?
(a) Filial affection.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Race hatred.

8. Why does Buddy Jackson say that the whites wanted his Masons out of the mysteries?
(a) Because the mysteries had been changed.
(b) Because the mysteries were black mysteries.
(c) Because the mysteries had come from whites.
(d) Because the mysteries taught rebellion.

9. What does Reed say is Masonry’s relationship with the Knights Templar?
(a) A bastardization. b. The true heart of their tradition.
(b) The only surviving strain.
(c) A bastardization.
(d) A modernization.

10. What happened when Moses played the music he learned at the Temple?
(a) People's ears bled.
(b) Moses' fingers bled.
(c) The army interrupted the concert.
(d) They danced.

11. Who objects to the arrest of Hinkle Von Vampton?
(a) Hierophant 1.
(b) The black painter.
(c) The Guianese art critic.
(d) The Lebanese dancer.

12. Why does Black Herman succeed where PaPaLaBas failed?
(a) He was more relaxed.
(b) He was more knowledgeable.
(c) He was not personally involved with Earline.
(d) He knew his limits.

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

14. Who saves Hierophant 1’s life?
(a) Hinkle Von Vampton.
(b) Walter Mellon.
(c) Benoit Battraville.
(d) Dr. Le de Forest.

15. How does Reed characterize the Knights Templar when they were founded?
(a) Mama's boys.
(b) Sissy boys.
(c) Choir boys.
(d) Bully boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Black Herman say is ready to meet with PaPaLaBas in Chapter 42?

2. How does Reed describe the interior of the black freighter?

3. What modern figure does PaPaLaBas say Isis corresponds to?

4. What advice does Black Herman give PaPaLaBas?

5. What did Pharaoh do to quiet the crowd?

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