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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is developed to cure the Jes Grew?
(a) Work camps.
(b) A talking android.
(c) A disinfectant bath.
(d) A cure consisting of pills.

2. What does Safecracker Gould say Major Young would be doing ‘if he were a real black man’?
(a) Organizing the workers.
(b) Shooting officials.
(c) Spreading the gospel of Voodoo.
(d) Working for the vote.

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

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

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

6. What does Berbelang say would doom the Mu’tafikah?
(a) If the Talking Android cannot be taught to dance.
(b) If Thor betrays them to the police.
(c) If the idols cannot all be returned on time.
(d) If there is racial memory in the white man’s soul.

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

8. Where do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould look for the anthology that contains the Jes Grew?
(a) Earline.
(b) Abdul Hamid.
(c) Berbelang.
(d) PaPaLaBas.

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

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

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

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

13. What are elders trying to regulate?
(a) How many people can come to each dance.
(b) How late the dances can run.
(c) How many dance partners a person can have.
(d) How close youth can dance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Biff Musclewhite say Thor reminds him of?

2. When were the Knights Templar founded?

3. What makes Hinkle Von Vampton’s boss think that he is losing his marbles?

4. Who is Schlitz?

5. What does PaPaLaBas fit for his customers?

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