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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Knights Templars do to raise their standing?
(a) Protected the crusaders.
(b) Assimilated Islam’s secrets.
(c) Saved the second crusade.
(d) Defeated the first crusade.

2. What does Reed say the Book gave to Hugues de Payens?
(a) The worst of itself.
(b) All the old dance moves.
(c) Recipes for virtue.
(d) The sacred spirit.

3. What does Battraville say is after the white people who build highways?
(a) Their god.
(b) Ghosts of their victims.
(c) Their own whiteness.
(d) Devils.

4. What advice does Black Herman give PaPaLaBas?
(a) Take inventory.
(b) Imitate.
(c) Concentrate.
(d) Improvise.

5. Why does Hinkle Von Vampton need Nathan Brown to write for the Benign Monster?
(a) To give it guts.
(b) To give it verve.
(c) To give it class.
(d) To give it legitimacy.

6. What does Reed say happened to the Knights Templar when Hugues de Payens read the Book?
(a) They were in disarray.
(b) Their power increased.
(c) Their standing increased.
(d) Their fortunes reversed.

7. What tradition does PaPaLaBas say Osiris began?
(a) Planting and harvesting.
(b) Singing and dancing.
(c) Ruling and offering tribute.
(d) Reading and writing.

8. How was Jethro’s music received when Moses played it in Egypt?
(a) He was celebrated.
(b) He was hissed.
(c) The people danced.
(d) Reviews were mixed.

9. Why does Abdul Hamid say he burned the Book of Thoth?
(a) It was racist.
(b) It was too lewd.
(c) It was incomprehensible.
(d) He had captured its essence.

10. What brainstorm does Hinkle Von Vampton have about the Talking Android?
(a) He will brainwash PaPaLaBas.
(b) He will become the Talking Android himself.
(c) He will put Safecracker Gould in blackface.
(d) He will keep the identity of the Talking Android secret.

11. Why does Black Herman succeed where PaPaLaBas failed?
(a) He was more relaxed.
(b) He knew his limits.
(c) He was more knowledgeable.
(d) He was not personally involved with Earline.

12. What does Battraville want to do with the man he is looking for?
(a) Feed him to a new loa.
(b) Expose him to a new loa.
(c) Get him to kill a new loa.
(d) Sacrifice him to a new loa.

13. How does Reed describe the interior of the black freighter?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Immaculate.
(c) Classical.
(d) Tugboat shabby.

14. Who learned VooDoo from Moses, according to VooDoo tradition?
(a) Syrians.
(b) Israelites.
(c) South Americans.
(d) Christians.

15. What inscription is embroidered on the flag that hangs from the ceiling of the stateroom on the black freighter?
(a) Blood and visions.
(b) Upward.
(c) Progress.
(d) Blood, pain, excrement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the black freighter?

2. How has the Wallflower Order figured out how to undermine the Jes Grew?

3. How does Reed characterize the Knights Templar when they were founded?

4. To what does Battraville compare feeding the loas?

5. What is PaPaLaBas’ explanation for Abdul Hamid’s decision to burn the Book?

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