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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused New Jersey youths to be fired from their job?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Proselytizing the Jes Grew.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Singing.

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

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

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

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

6. What does PaPaLaBas fit for his customers?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Their souls.
(c) Their histories.
(d) Their heads.

7. How long does the gang’s work take?
(a) A few minutes.
(b) A few days.
(c) Half and hour.
(d) A few hours.

8. What does PaPaLaBas say men will turn to before the end of the century?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Superstition.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Politics.

9. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?
(a) In the Mayor's car.
(b) On the Mayor’s knee.
(c) At the bar.
(d) In the Mayor's bed.

10. What is Schlitz’ relationship with Buddy Jackson?
(a) They are rival gangsters.
(b) They are close friends.
(c) They are colleagues.
(d) They are leaders of competing powers.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Ishmael Reed compare Hinkle Von Vampton to?
(a) A Blake poem.
(b) A poem by James Weldon Johnson.
(c) A horseman of the apocalypse.
(d) A Hieronymus Bosch painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Earline say PaPaLaBas mixes concrete events with?

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

3. What does Berbelang say haunts Faust?

4. What does Yellow Jack say to make Berbelang angry?

5. What does Reed say Africans have fallen in love with, in North America?

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