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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 (Chapters 7-12).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does James Weldon Johnson say the Jes Grew belongs to?
(a) Africans.
(b) Nobody.
(c) Slaves and ex-slaves.
(d) All blacks.

3. Where is Woodrow Wilson Jefferson going, in Chapter 11?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) California.

4. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?
(a) On the Mayor’s knee.
(b) In the Mayor's car.
(c) In the Mayor's bed.
(d) At the bar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Robber Baron examine in Chapter 9?

2. What is the danger if the Jes Grew becomes pandemic?

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

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

5. Where is Jes Grew worst?

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