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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8 (Chapters 50-51).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who notices the unusual black ship at the pier?
(a) A black trolley car driver.
(b) A white cop.
(c) A white deliveryman.
(d) A black cabaret dancer.

5. What are elders trying to regulate?
(a) How many people can come to each dance.
(b) How close youth can dance.
(c) How many dance partners a person can have.
(d) How late the dances can run.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat does Hinkle Von Vampton hold over Nathan Brown?

2. How does Reed describe the interior of the black freighter?

3. What does Berbelang say haunts Faust?

4. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?

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

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