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

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

3. What does Hinkle Von Vampton say Brown has avoided doing?
(a) Losing his legitimacy as a black person.
(b) Retreating from black militarism.
(c) Turning his heritage into a mystification.
(d) Using his poetry to fuel revolutionary ideals.

4. What does PaPaLaBas say men will turn to before the end of the century?
(a) Politics.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Superstition.
(d) Mystery.

5. What does Biff Musclewhite reminisce about, with Charlotte?
(a) WW II.
(b) The Depression.
(c) The Spanish-American war.
(d) WW I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hinkle Von Vampton ask Biff Musclewhite to do for him?

2. Why does Reed say the Atonists relish Death?

3. What does Reed say Berbelang known as?

4. What does Berbelang object to, in how people look at Van Gogh?

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

(see the answer key)

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