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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Reed say is Masonry’s relationship with the Knights Templar?
(a) A modernization.
(b) The only surviving strain.
(c) A bastardization. b. The true heart of their tradition.
(d) A bastardization.

3. Who does Black Herman say is ready to meet with PaPaLaBas in Chapter 42?
(a) The directors of the Center for Art Detention.
(b) The visitors in the harbor.
(c) The remnants of Berbelang’s gang.
(d) The police.

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

5. 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 keep the identity of the Talking Android secret.
(d) He will put Safecracker Gould in blackface.

6. What remedy did the church have for underground worshippers of Osiris?
(a) Beatings.
(b) Forced conversion.
(c) Execution.
(d) Exile.

7. How long does Black Herman’s treatment of Earline last?
(a) A couple of hours.
(b) A day.
(c) An hour.
(d) A couple of days.

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

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

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

11. Who notices the unusual black ship at the pier?
(a) A white deliveryman.
(b) A white cop.
(c) A black cabaret dancer.
(d) A black trolley car driver.

12. Who saves Hierophant 1’s life?
(a) Walter Mellon.
(b) Dr. Le de Forest.
(c) Benoit Battraville.
(d) Hinkle Von Vampton.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does PaPaLaBas give to the man Earline has seduced?

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

3. How was Jethro’s music received when Moses played it in Egypt?

4. Why does Biff Musclewhite say he had to kill Charlotte?

5. Why did the Knights Templar lose their function in 1303?

(see the answer keys)

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