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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How will Berbelang get the Olmec head?
(a) He is going to buy it.
(b) He will have to go back to steal it another night.
(c) He is not going to steal it, in the end.
(d) By ransoming Biff Musclewhite.

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 doesn't exist.
(d) That it isn't ready yet.

4. What does Berbelang say haunts Faust?
(a) The agony of having sold his soul to the devil.
(b) The dread of the afterlife.
(c) The guilt over the money he took from peasants.
(d) The knowledge that he is not really powerful.

5. What are Berbelang and the others wearing when they come for Biff Musclewhite?
(a) Camouflage.
(b) Tuxedos.
(c) Work clothes.
(d) Soldiers’ uniforms.

6. What makes Hinkle Von Vampton’s boss think that he is losing his marbles?
(a) He leaves a headline in the past tense.
(b) His articles are filled with errors.
(c) He misses every deadline for a month.
(d) He shows up drunk to work.

7. Why does Reed say the Atonists relish Death?
(a) Because then they can forget their ingratitude about the world
(b) Because they find bodies so itchy and fascinating.
(c) Because then they will not be expected to work any more.
(d) Because then they can sleep without dancing.

8. Who does James Weldon Johnson say the Jes Grew belongs to?
(a) Slaves and ex-slaves.
(b) Nobody.
(c) All blacks.
(d) Africans.

9. Where are the Mu’tafikah sending their loot?
(a) To Asia.
(b) To South America.
(c) To Australia.
(d) To Africa.

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

11. Why is Woodrow Wilson Jefferson prevented from entering Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?
(a) He is not dressed appropriately.
(b) He looks hispanic.
(c) He is too dark-skinned.
(d) He is not dark-skinned enough.

12. Where do Berbelang and his compatriots get their equipment from?
(a) A police station.
(b) A construction site.
(c) A moving company.
(d) A theater.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Teutonic knights protecting?

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

3. What is developed to cure the Jes Grew?

4. What is the Mu’tafikahs’ plan in returning the gods?

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

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