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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 Schlitz’ relationship with Buddy Jackson?
(a) They are close friends.
(b) They are colleagues.
(c) They are leaders of competing powers.
(d) They are rival gangsters.

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

3. How does Reed characterize the outbreak of Jes Grew?
(a) Incremental.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Sporadic.
(d) Predictable.

4. What does Berbelang object to, in how people look at Van Gogh?
(a) Their solemnity.
(b) Their agitation.
(c) Their reverence.
(d) Their excitement.

5. What does Reed say Berbelang known as?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) An oddball.
(c) A scholar.
(d) A lounge lizard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hinkle Von Vampton ask Biff Musclewhite to do for him?

2. What does Reed say is America’s astrological rising sign?

3. What is the real location to which Berbelang take Biff Musclewhite?

4. How long do Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah have before their “performance”?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Mu’tafikah’s plan?

2. What accusation does Yellow Jack make to Berbelang?

3. What predicament does Charlotte find herself in with regard to Biff Musclewhite?

4. How is Mumbo Jumbo different from most novels?

5. Under what conditions does Hinkle Von Vampton agree to stamp out the Jes Grew?

6. What is PaPaLaBas’ practice?

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

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

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

10. What is the meaning when Safecracker Gould says that “the dances were difficult to write down” (p. 103)?

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