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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 is the only cure for the Jes Grew?
(a) Anesthesia.
(b) Incarceration.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Isolation.

2. Who does Ishmael Reed credit with developing the “grapevine telegraph?
(a) Charlie Parker.
(b) Booker T. Washington.
(c) Warren G. Harding.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berbelang object to, in how people look at Van Gogh?

2. How does Battraville describe the whites’ war against Haiti?

3. Who does Earline say she is married to?

4. What is the name of the black freighter?

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

(see the answer key)

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