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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 is the only cure for the Jes Grew?
(a) Anesthesia.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Incarceration.

2. What is the danger if the Jes Grew becomes pandemic?
(a) The end of civilization.
(b) The end of the Mayor’s career.
(c) The destruction of the city.
(d) The end of black people.

3. What does Reed say Berbelang known as?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) An oddball.
(c) A lounge lizard.
(d) A scholar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Reed characterize the outbreak of Jes Grew?

3. Where does Hinkle Von Vampton work?

4. Why does Reed say JesGrewers came to America?

5. What makes Hinkle Von Vampton’s boss think that he is losing his marbles?

(see the answer key)

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