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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Woodrow Wilson Jefferson going, in Chapter 11?
(a) California.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

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

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

4. Who is Schlitz?
(a) A banker.
(b) A pimp.
(c) A merchant.
(d) A policeman.

5. What is the Mu’tafikahs’ plan in returning the gods?
(a) To arouse the spirits.
(b) To put things back in their proper places.
(c) To undermine white people’s power.
(d) To create a global revolution.

6. Where does Hinkle Von Vampton work?
(a) The New York Tribune.
(b) The Wallflower Order.
(c) The police station.
(d) The New York Sun.

7. What metaphor does Ishmael Reed use for the Mu’tafikah’s seizure of artifacts?
(a) Collecting.
(b) Repossessing.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Harvesting.

8. What does the Robber Baron examine in Chapter 9?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) An African fetish.
(c) A book.
(d) A dollar bill.

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

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

11. What does Berbelang say haunts Faust?
(a) The agony of having sold his soul to the devil.
(b) The knowledge that he is not really powerful.
(c) The guilt over the money he took from peasants.
(d) The dread of the afterlife.

12. What do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould learn about the anthology?
(a) That it isn't ready yet.
(b) That the words are unprintable.
(c) That it doesn't exist.
(d) That it has already been distributed.

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

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

15. Where does the Jes Grew aim to settle?
(a) Africa.
(b) New York.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Berbelang and his gang take Biff Musclewhite?

2. Why is Woodrow Wilson Jefferson prevented from entering Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?

3. What is developed to cure the Jes Grew?

4. What is an August ham?

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

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