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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (Chapters 13-17).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Reed characterize the outbreak of Jes Grew?
(a) Incremental.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Predictable.
(d) Sporadic.

3. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?
(a) She does not speak English.
(b) She uses too much slang.
(c) She never finishes her sentences.
(d) She is always whispering.

4. Where does Hinkle Von Vampton work?
(a) The Wallflower Order.
(b) The police station.
(c) The New York Sun.
(d) The New York Tribune.

5. Who does Ishmael Reed credit with developing the “grapevine telegraph?
(a) Warren G. Harding.
(b) Louis Armstrong.
(c) Charlie Parker.
(d) Booker T. Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are elders trying to regulate?

2. What does Reed say is America’s astrological rising sign?

3. Where does the Jes Grew aim to settle?

4. Where does the Mayor go to at the beginning of the book?

5. What is the only cure for the Jes Grew?

(see the answer key)

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