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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 are elders trying to regulate?
(a) How late the dances can run.
(b) How many people can come to each dance.
(c) How many dance partners a person can have.
(d) How close youth can dance.

2. When Earline starts to discuss the Jes Grew, what does Berbelang do to interrupt her?
(a) Caress and kiss her.
(b) His her.
(c) Walk out.
(d) Change the topic.

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

4. Why does Earline say Berbelang left the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?
(a) Because of PaPaLaBas’ strictness.
(b) Because of PapaLaBas's restlessness.
(c) Because of his attraction for her.
(d) Because of PaPaLaBas’ conspiracy theory.

5. What is Berbelang’s hat decorated with?
(a) Scarabs.
(b) Snakeskin.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Feathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Reed say the Atonists relish Death?

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

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

4. What does Carl Jung say the Great War was useful for?

5. Who does Ishmael Reed credit with developing the “grapevine telegraph?

(see the answer key)

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