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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hinkle Von Vampton say Brown has avoided doing?
(a) Retreating from black militarism.
(b) Using his poetry to fuel revolutionary ideals.
(c) Turning his heritage into a mystification.
(d) Losing his legitimacy as a black person.

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

3. What is inside the box?
(a) A bull's horn.
(b) The Book.
(c) A series of boxes that are ultimately empty.
(d) Loose, disconnected papers.

4. What did Pharaoh do to quiet the crowd?
(a) Did Osiris’ dance.
(b) Sang Jethro’s songs.
(c) Invented a new song.
(d) Read from Isis’ book.

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

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

7. What did Moses do after he demonstrated his power?
(a) Went to war.
(b) Ruled Egypt.
(c) Brought Zipporah back from Jethro.
(d) Went into exile.

8. What was Abdul Hamid dressed in in Black Herman’s dream of him?
(a) A night-club floor.
(b) Sufi's robes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) African garb.

9. WhenPaPaLaBas and T Malice encounter the bum outside the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral, what does the bum say made him so ragged?
(a) He said a bird spoke to him.
(b) He heard men reading from the Book.
(c) He read from the Book.
(d) He said the words at the Plantation Club.

10. Where are PaPaLaBas and Black Herman sending Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Prison.
(d) Egypt.

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

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

13. How does Biff Musclewhite explain Charlotte’s confusion about what happened last night?
(a) There might have been something in her food.
(b) She might be coming down with something.
(c) She must have drunk too much.
(d) There must have been something in the air.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the times described at the beginning of Chapter 53?

2. What language has Abdul Hamid translated the Book into?

3. Who does Hinkle Von Vampton think will be a good Talking Android?

4. What criticism does Battraville say is leveled against Haitian art?

5. What comes from the black freighter?

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