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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Jes Grew aim to settle?
(a) New York.
(b) Africa.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Chicago.

2. What kind of food is served at Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?
(a) American.
(b) African.
(c) Indonesian.
(d) Thai.

3. What does Carl Jung say the Great War was useful for?
(a) Making men doubt the value of Western culture.
(b) Giving white men machines with which to repress history.
(c) Making room for more industrial culture.
(d) Blurring the line between men and machines.

4. What has to happen before the Jes Grew will stop?
(a) It will be purged by the most stringent repression.
(b) It will become the spirit of America.
(c) It will cohabit with what it is after.
(d) It will mingle with the blood of the land.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Reed say is the American motto?

3. Who is Suzie Mae?

4. Who is providing Berbelang’s gang with supplies and equipment?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the confrontation between Buddy Jackson and Schlitz.

2. What is Mumbo Jumbo’s relationship with history?

3. How does Charlotte’s predicament get resolved?

4. What does Reed say the Jes Grew is seeking?

5. Describe Buddy Jackson’s cabaret.

6. What critique does Abdul Hamid make of PaPaLaBas?

7. Describe the cover of the first issue of the Benign Monster.

8. Why is Thor distrusted?

9. What is PaPaLaBas’ practice?

10. How is Mumbo Jumbo different from most novels?

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