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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. Who objects to the arrest of Hinkle Von Vampton?
(a) The black painter.
(b) Hierophant 1.
(c) The Guianese art critic.
(d) The Lebanese dancer.

2. Why does PaPaLaBas say that Osiris had to record his dance?
(a) To feed the spirits.
(b) To feed her brother.
(c) To take power.
(d) To assuage the gods.

3. How does Biff Musclewhite characterize America?
(a) A stolen trinket.
(b) A cheap liar.
(c) A ditch filled with dead Indians.
(d) A castle built on money.

4. Where is Jes Grew worst?
(a) The American south.
(b) The American west.
(c) The American cities.
(d) The American northwest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Robber Baron examine in Chapter 9?

2. How is African-American painting described in the newspaper?

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

4. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?

5. Why does Black Herman succeed where PaPaLaBas failed?

(see the answer key)

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