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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the danger if the Jes Grew becomes pandemic?
(a) The end of the Mayor’s career.
(b) The destruction of the city.
(c) The end of civilization.
(d) The end of black people.

2. How many artifacts will “Tam” collect and return?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 5,000
(c) 150.
(d) 500.

3. Who is Suzie Mae?
(a) Berbelang’s secretary.
(b) Biff Musclewhite’s lover.
(c) Charlotte's maid.
(d) Hinkle Von Vampton’s masseuse.

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

5. Who is providing Berbelang’s gang with supplies and equipment?
(a) PaPaLaBas.
(b) Hinkle Von Vampton.
(c) Biff Musclewhite.
(d) Buddy Jackson.

6. What are Knockings?
(a) Religious secrets.
(b) Race memory from Africa.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Cultural knowledge.

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

8. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?
(a) She is always whispering.
(b) She uses too much slang.
(c) She does not speak English.
(d) She never finishes her sentences.

9. How does Reed characterize the outbreak of Jes Grew?
(a) Sporadic.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Predictable.
(d) Incremental.

10. Who does Ishmael Reed credit with developing the “grapevine telegraph?
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Charlie Parker.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Warren G. Harding.

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

12. What is everything made of at the Wallflower Order headquarters?
(a) Books.
(b) Wood.
(c) Paper.
(d) Plastic.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Hinkle Von Vampton’s boss think that he is losing his marbles?

2. What is Schlitz’ relationship with Buddy Jackson?

3. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?

4. How long do Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah have before their “performance”?

5. What metaphor does Ishmael Reed use for the Mu’tafikah’s seizure of artifacts?

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