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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7 (Chapters 42-49).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould learn about the anthology?
(a) That it isn't ready yet.
(b) That it has already been distributed.
(c) That it doesn't exist.
(d) That the words are unprintable.

2. What is Hinkle Von Vampton about to do to his boss before a crowd breaks in?
(a) Stab him.
(b) Reconcile with him.
(c) Drink with him.
(d) Rail against him.

3. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?
(a) In the Mayor's car.
(b) On the Mayor’s knee.
(c) At the bar.
(d) In the Mayor's bed.

4. What does Ishmael Reed compare Earline to in Chapter 40?
(a) A goddness.
(b) A snake.
(c) An ant.
(d) A mermaid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Atonist Order require of the newspapers?

2. What is the “Loa that Jes Grew here in America among our people” (p. 128)?

3. What does Battraville say is after the white people who build highways?

4. What does Reed say is the American motto?

5. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?

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