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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. When was the last time Jes Grew flared up?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1860s.

2. 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 get whites loose.
(c) To stir up the revolutionary blacks.
(d) To pacify revolutionary blacks.

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

4. What does PaPaLaBas fit for his customers?
(a) Their histories.
(b) Their heads.
(c) Their lives.
(d) Their souls.

5. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?
(a) She uses too much slang.
(b) She is always whispering.
(c) She never finishes her sentences.
(d) She does not speak English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an August ham?

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

3. Who is Suzie Mae?

4. Why does Biff Musclewhite say he had to kill Charlotte?

5. What does PaPaLaBas give to the man Earline has seduced?

(see the answer key)

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