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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened when Moses played the music he learned at the Temple?
(a) They danced.
(b) The army interrupted the concert.
(c) Moses' fingers bled.
(d) People's ears bled.

3. What does Buddy Jackson’s story consist of, when he explains how he became interested in the Book?
(a) Discrimination.
(b) Filial affection.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Race hatred.

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

5. What do the children accuse Safecracker Gould of doing?
(a) Stealing their homework.
(b) Stealing their slang.
(c) Misleading them.
(d) Beating them.

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

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

8. Who woke Moses in the temple of Osiris and Isis?
(a) Isis.
(b) Set.
(c) Osiris.
(d) Horus.

9. What does Battraville say Americans know very well?
(a) History.
(b) Shorthand.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Religion.

10. How did Pharaoh try to restore order?
(a) With threats of punishment.
(b) With promises of gifts.
(c) By announcing a meeting of councilors.
(d) With a different concert.

11. What did James Frazer call the Black Mud Sound?
(a) Vulgar and offensive.
(b) Earthy and sensual.
(c) Lewd and profligate.
(d) Intellectual and rarefied.

12. How does Battraville describe the whites’ war against Haiti?
(a) A war of conquest.
(b) As a preemptive strike against the Jes Grew.
(c) A race war.
(d) A centuries-old Holy War.

13. What is the Spiraling Agony?
(a) The name of the freighter loaded with fetishes.
(b) The companion magazine to the Benign Monster.
(c) Hinkle Von Vampton’s house.
(d) The new dance people are doing the Jes Grew to.

14. What does Battraville say was the first thing the Marines did in Haiti?
(a) Destroy the palaces.
(b) Take $60 million from the banks.
(c) Destroy the libraries.
(d) Take the fetishes from the temples.

15. What does Ishmael Reed compare Earline to in Chapter 40?
(a) A snake.
(b) An ant.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) A goddness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does PaPaLaBas say Osiris’ brother viewed him?

2. What is inside the box?

3. What is the name of the black freighter?

4. How long does Black Herman’s treatment of Earline last?

5. What is depicted on the pendant Hinkle Von Vampton wears in the photo in the New York Sun?

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