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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?
(a) People who drank and smoked liberally.
(b) People who sampled different cultures.
(c) People who exercised strict restraint.
(d) People who had been to Africa.

2. How has Thor tried to be trusted?
(a) By betraying his father.
(b) By making sacrifices.
(c) By going above and beyond in his thefts.
(d) By stealing from his own family.

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

4. What are labanotations?
(a) Hieroglyphics from ancient Africa.
(b) A system for recording gestures in dance.
(c) Notations to record the inflections of spoken language.
(d) Detectives’ notes about suspects’ movements.

5. What was the outcome of the trial of the Wallflower Order?
(a) They were installed as guards of the territories.
(b) They were convicted of betraying their culture.
(c) They were condemned.
(d) They were disgraced.

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

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

8. What is the only cure for the Jes Grew?
(a) Incarceration.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Anesthesia.
(d) Sleep.

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

10. Who is the anti-Jes Grew president?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) Warren Harding.

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

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

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

14. Why does Earline say Berbelang left the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?
(a) Because of PaPaLaBas’ strictness.
(b) Because of PapaLaBas's restlessness.
(c) Because of PaPaLaBas’ conspiracy theory.
(d) Because of his attraction for her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Mu’tafikah meet, to begin their work of repatriating idols?

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

3. What image does Berbelang use to symbolize the gods Shango, Shiva and Quetzalcoatl?

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

5. What do Protestant editorial writers compare the Jes Grew to?

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