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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 the real location to which Berbelang take Biff Musclewhite?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(b) The Guggenheim Museum.
(c) The Museum of Modern Art.
(d) Columbia University’s African Studies department.

2. How is African-American painting described in the newspaper?
(a) Radical.
(b) Sophisticated.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Primitive.

3. What does Hinkle Von Vampton tell Major Young is the purpose of the ‘Benign Monster’?
(a) To pacify revolutionary blacks.
(b) To stir up the revolutionary blacks.
(c) To pacify whites as they enter black culture.
(d) To get whites loose.

4. What does Earline say PaPaLaBas mixes concrete events with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Warfare.
(c) Politics.
(d) Poetry.

5. How many artifacts will “Tam” collect and return?
(a) 150.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 5,000

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?

2. What is the danger if the Jes Grew becomes pandemic?

3. How does Reed characterize Berbelang?

4. To whom do the Knights Templar answer?

5. Who does James Weldon Johnson say the Jes Grew belongs to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is PaPaLaBas’ practice?

2. What is the status of The Text?

3. Why is Thor distrusted?

4. How is Mumbo Jumbo different from most novels?

5. What is the significance of the siege in Haiti?

6. How does Reed characterize America in Mumbo Jumbo?

7. What does the Jes Grew want?

8. Describe Buddy Jackson’s cabaret.

9. What happens when the Mayor of New Orleans responds to the Jes Grew outbreak?

10. How does Biff Musclewhite free himself after the heist?

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