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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. What is Hinkle Von Vampton about to do to his boss before a crowd breaks in?
(a) Rail against him.
(b) Reconcile with him.
(c) Drink with him.
(d) Stab him.

2. What does PaPaLaBas fit for his customers?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Their heads.
(c) Their souls.
(d) Their histories.

3. Who is the anti-Jes Grew president?
(a) Warren Harding.
(b) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

4. When was the last time Jes Grew flared up?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1840s.

5. What does Ishmael Reed compare Hinkle Von Vampton to?
(a) A poem by James Weldon Johnson.
(b) A Hieronymus Bosch painting.
(c) A Blake poem.
(d) A horseman of the apocalypse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Biff Musclewhite characterize America?

2. What is the Mu’tafikahs’ plan in returning the gods?

3. What are elders trying to regulate?

4. To whom do the Knights Templar answer?

5. Why does Reed say JesGrewers came to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does Peter Pick recommend for the Plantation House scene?

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

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

4. How does Charlotte’s predicament get resolved?

5. How is Mumbo Jumbo different from most novels?

6. What affliction is PaPaLaBas trying to relieve the blacks of in North America?

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

8. What is the Mu’tafikah’s plan?

9. What accusation does Yellow Jack make to Berbelang?

10. Describe the trolley car driver’s strange experience on account of the black freighter.

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