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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6 (Chapters 31-41).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is African-American painting described in the newspaper?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Radical.
(c) Primitive.
(d) Sophisticated.

3. What are Knockings?
(a) Religious secrets.
(b) Cultural knowledge.
(c) Race memory from Africa.
(d) Intuition.

4. How has Thor tried to be trusted?
(a) By going above and beyond in his thefts.
(b) By betraying his father.
(c) By stealing from his own family.
(d) By making sacrifices.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does PaPaLaBas give to the man Earline has seduced?

2. Whom does Biff Musclewhite say Thor reminds him of?

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

4. What is the “Loa that Jes Grew here in America among our people” (p. 128)?

5. Where do Berbelang and his gang take Biff Musclewhite?

(see the answer key)

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