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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. What does Carl Jung say the Great War was useful for?
(a) Giving white men machines with which to repress history.
(b) Blurring the line between men and machines.
(c) Making room for more industrial culture.
(d) Making men doubt the value of Western culture.

2. What does Safecracker Gould say Major Young would be doing ‘if he were a real black man’?
(a) Working for the vote.
(b) Spreading the gospel of Voodoo.
(c) Shooting officials.
(d) Organizing the workers.

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

4. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?
(a) People who had been to Africa.
(b) People who exercised strict restraint.
(c) People who sampled different cultures.
(d) People who drank and smoked liberally.

5. How has Thor tried to be trusted?
(a) By betraying his father.
(b) By making sacrifices.
(c) By stealing from his own family.
(d) By going above and beyond in his thefts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hinkle Von Vampton accuse his boss of?

2. What is the only cure for the Jes Grew?

3. Who does James Weldon Johnson say the Jes Grew belongs to?

4. What does Battraville say Americans know very well?

5. Where do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould look for the anthology that contains the Jes Grew?

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