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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when The Hunter approached Moses?
(a) He told Moses why his music was wrong.
(b) The Atonist thugs killed him.
(c) He beat Moses badly.
(d) He offered Moses his daughter’s hand in marriage.

2. What is the name of the literary device used repeatedly in Harlem Tom Toms?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Assonance.

3. What does Earline’s scarf turn into, when Black Herman throws it on the floor?
(a) A snake.
(b) A dress.
(c) A rope.
(d) A book.

4. How are the times described at the beginning of Chapter 53?
(a) The end of the road.
(b) The end of the good times.
(c) The beginning of a new age.
(d) The dark time in a transition.

5. How has the Wallflower Order figured out how to undermine the Jes Grew?
(a) By buying its followers’ loyalty for the Wallflower Order.
(b) By shipping sufferers to Africa.
(c) By starving it of money and musicians.
(d) By educating people in European philosophy.

6. What does Moses do at Mt. Horeb?
(a) Feast and celebrate.
(b) Meet Isis.
(c) Write the Book of Thoth.
(d) Fast and mediate.

7. What news does T Malice bring?
(a) That the Jes Grew has reached New York.
(b) That the Jes Grew has quit.
(c) That the Jes Grew has spread to Asia.
(d) That the Jes Grew has changed.

8. What ornaments the box in which the Book is kept?
(a) Men and women and temples.
(b) Egrets and herons.
(c) Bulls and cows.
(d) Snakes and scorpions.

9. What note does Mumbo Jumbo end on?
(a) Children will not grow up until they can intuit their parents’ secrets.
(b) Elders should teach their lessons to their children.
(c) Secret knowledge should be kept from the masses.
(d) The black race will overtake American culture with jazz.

10. How was Moses’ book lost?
(a) It was stolen from him.
(b) It was taken back by Isis.
(c) He burned it.
(d) He hid it from his children.

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

12. To what does Battraville compare feeding the loas?
(a) Publishing black poetry.
(b) Smashing jazz records.
(c) Selling bootleg liquor.
(d) Supporting jazz musicians.

13. Why did the Jes Grew quit?
(a) It had reached New York.
(b) The Wallflower Order had been defeated.
(c) It sensed that the Book of Thoth had been burned.
(d) The sexual revolution had made it unnecessary.

14. What comes from the black freighter?
(a) Explosions of light.
(b) The scent of lavender.
(c) The sound of laughter.
(d) The pulse of drums.

15. Why does PaPaLaBas say that Osiris had to record his dance?
(a) To feed her brother.
(b) To feed the spirits.
(c) To assuage the gods.
(d) To take power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Pharaoh try to restore order?

2. Where is Berbelang shot?

3. Why does Abdul Hamid say he burned the Book of Thoth?

4. What did James Frazer call the Black Mud Sound?

5. What did Moses do after he demonstrated his power?

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