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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. Where do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould look for the anthology that contains the Jes Grew?
(a) Berbelang.
(b) Earline.
(c) PaPaLaBas.
(d) Abdul Hamid.

2. What does Berbelang say would doom the Mu’tafikah?
(a) If the idols cannot all be returned on time.
(b) If the Talking Android cannot be taught to dance.
(c) If Thor betrays them to the police.
(d) If there is racial memory in the white man’s soul.

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

4. Why is Hinkle Von Vampton fired?
(a) For inaccuracies in his report on the Haitian invasion.
(b) For submitting to the Haitian invasion.
(c) For giving the Haitian invasion a headline.
(d) For failing to report on the Haitian invasion.

5. What does Hinkle Von Vampton tell Major Young is the purpose of the ‘Benign Monster’?
(a) To pacify whites as they enter black culture.
(b) To pacify revolutionary blacks.
(c) To stir up the revolutionary blacks.
(d) To get whites loose.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Thor tried to be trusted?

2. What kind of food is served at Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?

3. What does Ishmael Reed say the Mu’tafikah building resembles?

4. Where do Berbelang and his compatriots get their equipment from?

5. Why does Reed say the Atonists relish Death?

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