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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 are Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah drinking?
(a) Gin.
(b) Bourbon.
(c) Vermouth.
(d) Wine.

2. Where does the Jes Grew aim to settle?
(a) New York.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Africa.
(d) Chicago.

3. What is Hinkle Von Vampton about to do to his boss before a crowd breaks in?
(a) Stab him.
(b) Drink with him.
(c) Reconcile with him.
(d) Rail against him.

4. Why does Earline say Berbelang left the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?
(a) Because of PaPaLaBas’ conspiracy theory.
(b) Because of PaPaLaBas’ strictness.
(c) Because of PapaLaBas's restlessness.
(d) Because of his attraction for her.

5. What are labanotations?
(a) Hieroglyphics from ancient Africa.
(b) Notations to record the inflections of spoken language.
(c) A system for recording gestures in dance.
(d) Detectives’ notes about suspects’ movements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Atonist Order require of the newspapers?

2. What metaphor does Ishmael Reed use for the Mu’tafikah’s seizure of artifacts?

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

4. Where do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould look for the anthology that contains the Jes Grew?

5. How will Berbelang get the Olmec head?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Mumbo Jumbo’s relationship with history?

4. Describe the cover of the first issue of the Benign Monster.

5. Describe the confrontation between Buddy Jackson and Schlitz.

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

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

8. What critique does Abdul Hamid make of PaPaLaBas?

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

10. Why is Thor distrusted?

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