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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Reed say is America’s astrological rising sign?
(a) Taurus.
(b) Gemini.
(c) Gemini.
(d) Cancer.

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

5. What are Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah drinking?
(a) Vermouth.
(b) Wine.
(c) Bourbon.
(d) Gin.

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

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

8. 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) Making men doubt the value of Western culture.
(d) Giving white men machines with which to repress history.

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

10. How does Biff Musclewhite characterize America?
(a) A ditch filled with dead Indians.
(b) A stolen trinket.
(c) A castle built on money.
(d) A cheap liar.

11. What does Reed say is the American motto?
(a) There’s a sucker born every minute.
(b) There's no business like show business.
(c) You can't repeat the past? Of course you can.
(d) The sun never sets on the American empire.

12. What is the sign by which Schlitz’ properties are identified?
(a) A box of Dutch Masters.
(b) An ad for Packards cars.
(c) An image of Prince Hall.
(d) An image of the skull and crossbones.

13. What does Hinkle Von Vampton tell Major Young is the purpose of the ‘Benign Monster’?
(a) To stir up the revolutionary blacks.
(b) To pacify revolutionary blacks.
(c) To get whites loose.
(d) To pacify whites as they enter black culture.

14. What does Yellow Jack say to make Berbelang angry?
(a) That American blacks have been corrupted by industrialism.
(b) That American blacks are indifferent to suffering.
(c) That American blacks are docile.
(d) That American blacks are voilent.

15. What does Reed say Berbelang known as?
(a) An oddball.
(b) A lounge lizard.
(c) A scholar.
(d) A nuisance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused New Jersey youths to be fired from their job?

2. Where is Jes Grew worst?

3. What are the Teutonic knights protecting?

4. Who does Ishmael Reed credit with developing the “grapevine telegraph?

5. What are labanotations?

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