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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould look for the anthology that contains the Jes Grew?
(a) PaPaLaBas.
(b) Earline.
(c) Abdul Hamid.
(d) Berbelang.

2. How has Thor tried to be trusted?
(a) By stealing from his own family.
(b) By making sacrifices.
(c) By betraying his father.
(d) By going above and beyond in his thefts.

3. What is an August ham?
(a) A watermelon.
(b) A hat.
(c) A drink.
(d) A woman's dress.

4. What does Berbelang say would doom the Mu’tafikah?
(a) If there is racial memory in the white man’s soul.
(b) If Thor betrays them to the police.
(c) If the Talking Android cannot be taught to dance.
(d) If the idols cannot all be returned on time.

5. What does Reed say is the American motto?
(a) The sun never sets on the American empire.
(b) There's no business like show business.
(c) You can't repeat the past? Of course you can.
(d) There’s a sucker born every minute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Reed say JesGrewers came to America?

2. What does Yellow Jack say to make Berbelang angry?

3. Where do Berbelang and his compatriots get their equipment from?

4. How many artifacts will “Tam” collect and return?

5. What does Reed say Berbelang known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Berbelang say is the guilt Faust carries with him?

2. What accusation does Yellow Jack make to Berbelang?

3. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular in the 1920s in the Harlem Renaissance?

4. How does Woodrow Wilson Jefferson end up being hired by the Benign Monster?

5. Describe the cover of the first issue of the Benign Monster.

6. What does Reed say the Jes Grew is seeking?

7. Why does Woodrow Wilson Jefferson leave for New York?

8. How is Mumbo Jumbo different from most novels?

9. How does Black Herman cure Earline of the possession by the scent of the lavender from the Black Plume?

10. What is the Mu’tafikah’s plan?

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