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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 does Reed say Africans have fallen in love with, in North America?
(a) Death.
(b) Terror.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) The Jes Grew.

2. What does Ishmael Reed compare Earline to in Chapter 40?
(a) A mermaid.
(b) A snake.
(c) An ant.
(d) A goddness.

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

4. What are labanotations?
(a) Detectives’ notes about suspects’ movements.
(b) Hieroglyphics from ancient Africa.
(c) A system for recording gestures in dance.
(d) Notations to record the inflections of spoken language.

5. Why does Reed say the Atonists relish Death?
(a) Because then they can sleep without dancing.
(b) Because then they will not be expected to work any more.
(c) Because they find bodies so itchy and fascinating.
(d) Because then they can forget their ingratitude about the world

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused New Jersey youths to be fired from their job?

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

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

4. What metaphor does Ishmael Reed use for the Mu’tafikah’s seizure of artifacts?

5. Where do Berbelang and his compatriots get their equipment from?

(see the answer key)

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