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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Hinkle Von Vampton’s boss think that he is losing his marbles?
(a) He leaves a headline in the past tense.
(b) His articles are filled with errors.
(c) He misses every deadline for a month.
(d) He shows up drunk to work.

2. What does Biff Musclewhite reminisce about, with Charlotte?
(a) WW I.
(b) The Spanish-American war.
(c) WW II.
(d) The Depression.

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) Rail against him.
(d) Reconcile with him.

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

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

6. How is African-American painting described in the newspaper?
(a) Primitive.
(b) Sophisticated.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Radical.

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

8. What does Ishmael Reed say the Mu’tafikah building resembles?
(a) The future of Jazz.
(b) Western history.
(c) Black culture.
(d) The Jes Grew.

9. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?
(a) It is part of the local cuisine.
(b) It is not as damaging as lifelong slavery to the victim.
(c) It is better than cooking a man without eating him.
(d) It is essential the redemption and protection of the culture.

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

11. When was the last time Jes Grew flared up?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1910s.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Berbelang’s hat decorated with?

2. How many artifacts will “Tam” collect and return?

3. What does Reed say is America’s astrological rising sign?

4. What is the sign by which Schlitz’ properties are identified?

5. How will Berbelang get the Olmec head?

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