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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Battraville looking for in America?
(a) Biff Musclewhite.
(b) Hinkle Von Vampton.
(c) Abdul Hamid.
(d) PaPaLaBas.

4. What is PaPaLaBas’ explanation for Abdul Hamid’s decision to burn the Book?
(a) It exposed him too much power.
(b) He thought he would be killed.
(c) He couldn’t live with the beauty it showed him.
(d) It wasn’t as impressive as everyone hoped.

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

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

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

8. How does PaPaLaBas say Osiris’ brother viewed him?
(a) As a fool.
(b) As a dilettante.
(c) As a pretender.
(d) As a tyrant.

9. How was Jethro’s music received when Moses played it in Egypt?
(a) Reviews were mixed.
(b) The people danced.
(c) He was celebrated.
(d) He was hissed.

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

11. Where is Berbelang shot?
(a) In the heart.
(b) In the guts.
(c) In the face.
(d) In the throat.

12. What language has Abdul Hamid translated the Book into?
(a) Academic language.
(b) Ancient Egyptian.
(c) The brother on the street’s language.
(d) Proper English.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Jes Grew quit?

2. What advice does Black Herman give PaPaLaBas?

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

4. How does Biff Musclewhite explain Charlotte’s confusion about what happened last night?

5. Why does Black Herman succeed where PaPaLaBas failed?

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