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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 does Safecracker Gould say Major Young would be doing ‘if he were a real black man’?
(a) Spreading the gospel of Voodoo.
(b) Organizing the workers.
(c) Shooting officials.
(d) Working for the vote.

2. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?
(a) People who drank and smoked liberally.
(b) People who sampled different cultures.
(c) People who exercised strict restraint.
(d) People who had been to Africa.

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

4. Where do Berbelang and his compatriots get their equipment from?
(a) A construction site.
(b) A theater.
(c) A moving company.
(d) A police station.

5. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?
(a) At the bar.
(b) On the Mayor’s knee.
(c) In the Mayor's car.
(d) In the Mayor's bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an August ham?

2. What does Ishmael Reed say the Mu’tafikah building resembles?

3. What is Schlitz’ relationship with Buddy Jackson?

4. What does PaPaLaBas say men will turn to before the end of the century?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Thor distrusted?

4. Describe the interview between Hinkle Von Vampton and Abdul Hamid.

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

6. How does Charlotte’s predicament get resolved?

7. What is Warren G. Harding’s role in Mumbo Jumbo?

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

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

10. What does the Jes Grew want?

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