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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is an August ham?
(a) A drink.
(b) A hat.
(c) A woman's dress.
(d) A watermelon.

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

4. What do Protestant editorial writers compare the Jes Grew to?
(a) A madhouse.
(b) A gutter.
(c) A shark.
(d) A boll weevil.

5. What kind of food is served at Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?
(a) Indonesian.
(b) American.
(c) African.
(d) Thai.

6. When Earline starts to discuss the Jes Grew, what does Berbelang do to interrupt her?
(a) Walk out.
(b) His her.
(c) Change the topic.
(d) Caress and kiss her.

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

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

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

10. What does Earline say PaPaLaBas mixes concrete events with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Poetry.

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

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

13. Where do Berbelang and his gang take Biff Musclewhite?
(a) The Art Cellar.
(b) The Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral.
(c) The cabaret.
(d) The Center of Art Detention.

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

15. How long do Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah have before their “performance”?
(a) A few days.
(b) A few hours.
(c) A few months.
(d) A few weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does PaPaLaBas say men will turn to before the end of the century?

2. Where is Mumbo Jumbo set?

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

4. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?

5. What does Biff Musclewhite reminisce about, with Charlotte?

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