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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 PaPaLaBas’ explanation for Abdul Hamid’s decision to burn the Book?
(a) He couldn’t live with the beauty it showed him.
(b) He thought he would be killed.
(c) It wasn’t as impressive as everyone hoped.
(d) It exposed him too much power.

2. What does Battraville say is after the white people who build highways?
(a) Devils.
(b) Their own whiteness.
(c) Their god.
(d) Ghosts of their victims.

3. How does PaPaLaBas say Osiris’ brother viewed him?
(a) As a tyrant.
(b) As a fool.
(c) As a pretender.
(d) As a dilettante.

4. What is the Spiraling Agony?
(a) The companion magazine to the Benign Monster.
(b) The name of the freighter loaded with fetishes.
(c) Hinkle Von Vampton’s house.
(d) The new dance people are doing the Jes Grew to.

5. What was the result of Pharaoh’s action?
(a) Great rejoicing.
(b) A plague of locusts.
(c) A mushroom cloud.
(d) Renewing rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are PaPaLaBas and Black Herman sending Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould?

2. What threat does Hinkle Von Vampton hold over Nathan Brown?

3. What inscription is embroidered on the flag that hangs from the ceiling of the stateroom on the black freighter?

4. What advice does Black Herman give PaPaLaBas?

5. What does Ishmael Reed compare Earline to in Chapter 40?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Hank Rollings’ objections to Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould’s arrest get resolved?

2. What strategy does Mellon propose for thwarting the Mu’tafikah?

3. What is the meaning of the chart inserted in the historical account leading up to Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould’s arrest?

4. Describe Woodrow Wilson Jefferson’s departure for home.

5. What was the meaning of Abdul Hamid’s epigram?

6. What does Battraville say haunts White culture?

7. What happens when Moses read the Work to the people?

8. Describe the pendant that Hinkle Von Vampton wears around his neck.

9. Who is gathered at the Irvington-on-Hudson party?

10. What prevents Hierophant 1 from taking poison?

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