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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Abdul Hamid say he hopes for, in the future of the black race in America?
(a) Power to rule their own territories and live by their own laws.
(b) The possibility of diversity, instead of stereotype.
(c) Patience for decoding the entire book.
(d) Undoing progress and returning to Osiris’ times.

4. Where does Black Herman go, after handing over Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould?
(a) To take some time off.
(b) To track down a jewel.
(c) To find a girl.
(d) To find a missing manuscript.

5. Why did the Knights Templar lose their function in 1303?
(a) The Holy Land had been won.
(b) The Holy Land was controlled by Muslims.
(c) The Crusaders were no longer going to fight.
(d) Trade with the Middle East had fallen off.

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

7. What miracle did Osiris perform?
(a) He brought rain to dry land.
(b) He multiplied the amount of grain the land could produce.
(c) He made the earth swallow an invading army.
(d) He got the vines to follow his dancing.

8. Why does Biff Musclewhite say he had to kill Charlotte?
(a) She was going to kill herself.
(b) She had a gun.
(c) She was trying to get away.
(d) She was out of her mind.

9. What does PaPaLaBas say Osiris’ brother Set wanted?
(a) To read and write.
(b) To sing and dance.
(c) To invade and rule.
(d) To judge and weigh.

10. What did Osiris ban?
(a) Foreign travel.
(b) Cannibalism.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Tyranny.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the black freighter?

2. How does Battraville describe the whites’ war against Haiti?

3. Who greets PaPaLaBas and T Malice at the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?

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

5. What is the Wallflower Order’s relationship with the Atonist Path?

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