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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom do the Knights Templar answer?
(a) The King of England.
(b) The Muslim church.
(c) The King of France.
(d) The Pope.

2. Where does the Mayor go to at the beginning of the book?
(a) The infirmary.
(b) The police station.
(c) The bar.
(d) His office.

3. 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 sampled different cultures.
(c) People who drank and smoked liberally.
(d) People who exercised strict restraint.

4. What does the Atonist Order require of the newspapers?
(a) The obfuscation of repression of minorities.
(b) The denigration of minority cultures.
(c) The glorification of Western Culture.
(d) The exploration of Eastern and Asian cultures.

5. Who does James Weldon Johnson say the Jes Grew belongs to?
(a) All blacks.
(b) Nobody.
(c) Africans.
(d) Slaves and ex-slaves.

6. What image does Berbelang use to symbolize the gods Shango, Shiva and Quetzalcoatl?
(a) A bitter stream.
(b) An angry snake.
(c) A ruthless eagle.
(d) A proud cock.

7. Where did the Mu’tafikah meet, to begin their work of repatriating idols?
(a) In an art history class.
(b) In a Marxist meeting.
(c) In jail.
(d) In a jazz club.

8. What is the real location to which Berbelang take Biff Musclewhite?
(a) The Guggenheim Museum.
(b) Columbia University’s African Studies department.
(c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(d) The Museum of Modern Art.

9. Where is Mumbo Jumbo set?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) New Orleans.

10. What does Hinkle Von Vampton accuse his boss of?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Being a slob.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Oppression.

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

12. How long do Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah have before their “performance”?
(a) A few hours.
(b) A few months.
(c) A few days.
(d) A few weeks.

13. What does Berbelang object to, in how people look at Van Gogh?
(a) Their excitement.
(b) Their reverence.
(c) Their solemnity.
(d) Their agitation.

14. Why is Hinkle Von Vampton fired?
(a) For giving the Haitian invasion a headline.
(b) For failing to report on the Haitian invasion.
(c) For inaccuracies in his report on the Haitian invasion.
(d) For submitting to the Haitian invasion.

15. How does Reed characterize Berbelang?
(a) Frivolous.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Lackadaisical.
(d) Serious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?

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

3. Where are the Mu’tafikah sending their loot?

4. What is the danger if the Jes Grew becomes pandemic?

5. How does Reed characterize the outbreak of Jes Grew?

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