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

2. What is the sign by which Schlitz’ properties are identified?
(a) An image of Prince Hall.
(b) An image of the skull and crossbones.
(c) An ad for Packards cars.
(d) A box of Dutch Masters.

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

4. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?
(a) It is not as damaging as lifelong slavery to the victim.
(b) It is part of the local cuisine.
(c) It is essential the redemption and protection of the culture.
(d) It is better than cooking a man without eating him.

5. What do Protestant editorial writers compare the Jes Grew to?
(a) A boll weevil.
(b) A gutter.
(c) A shark.
(d) A madhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Safecracker Gould say Major Young would be doing ‘if he were a real black man’?

2. What would happen if the guarded ‘booty’ got into the ‘wrong hands’?

3. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?

4. What is developed to cure the Jes Grew?

5. How does Biff Musclewhite characterize America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Buddy Jackson’s cabaret.

2. What definitions of the Jes Grew are offered at the beginning of Mumbo Jumbo?

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

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

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

6. Why is Thor distrusted?

7. Describe Nathan Brown’s status in the black arts scene.

8. What does the Jes Grew want?

9. What is the status of The Text?

10. Why is Biff Musclewhite needed for the Mu’tafikah’s break-in at the Center for Art Detention?

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