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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (Chapters 27-30).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?
(a) It is better than cooking a man without eating him.
(b) It is part of the local cuisine.
(c) It is essential the redemption and protection of the culture.
(d) It is not as damaging as lifelong slavery to the victim.

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

4. What image does Berbelang use to symbolize the gods Shango, Shiva and Quetzalcoatl?
(a) A proud cock.
(b) An angry snake.
(c) A ruthless eagle.
(d) A bitter stream.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long does the gang’s work take?

4. Why is Woodrow Wilson Jefferson prevented from entering Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?

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

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