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

2. What kind of food is served at Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?
(a) African.
(b) Indonesian.
(c) American.
(d) Thai.

3. Who does James Weldon Johnson say the Jes Grew belongs to?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Slaves and ex-slaves.
(c) All blacks.
(d) Africans.

4. Who is Schlitz?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A banker.
(d) A pimp.

5. What does the Robber Baron examine in Chapter 9?
(a) A dollar bill.
(b) An African fetish.
(c) A gold watch.
(d) A book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Jes Grew worst?

2. What does Berbelang say would doom the Mu’tafikah?

3. Who is the anti-Jes Grew president?

4. What does Hinkle Von Vampton tell Major Young is the purpose of the ‘Benign Monster’?

5. What are Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah drinking?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mumbo Jumbo different from most novels?

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

3. How does Charlotte’s predicament get resolved?

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

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

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

7. How does Reed characterize America in Mumbo Jumbo?

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

9. Why is Thor distrusted?

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

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