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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. How does Reed characterize Berbelang?
(a) Serious.
(b) Lackadaisical.
(c) Frivolous.
(d) Indifferent.

2. What are the Teutonic knights protecting?
(a) The fetishes of the pagans.
(b) The Christian alters.
(c) The pagans’ souls.
(d) The Christians' lands.

3. Who is Suzie Mae?
(a) Biff Musclewhite’s lover.
(b) Hinkle Von Vampton’s masseuse.
(c) Berbelang’s secretary.
(d) Charlotte's maid.

4. What does Ishmael Reed compare Hinkle Von Vampton to?
(a) A Hieronymus Bosch painting.
(b) A horseman of the apocalypse.
(c) A Blake poem.
(d) A poem by James Weldon Johnson.

5. What does Earline say PaPaLaBas mixes concrete events with?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Warfare.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Reed say JesGrewers came to America?

2. Where is Jes Grew worst?

3. Why does Earline say Berbelang left the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?

4. What does Safecracker Gould say Major Young would be doing ‘if he were a real black man’?

5. When was the last time Jes Grew flared up?

(see the answer key)

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