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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. To what does Battraville compare feeding the loas?
(a) Supporting jazz musicians.
(b) Selling bootleg liquor.
(c) Smashing jazz records.
(d) Publishing black poetry.

2. Who does Earline say she is married to?
(a) Biff Musclewhite.
(b) PaPaLaBas.
(c) Hinckle Von Vampton.
(d) All black men.

3. What does PaPaLaBas give to the man Earline has seduced?
(a) Money.
(b) His card.
(c) Books.
(d) Earline's number.

4. What do the children accuse Safecracker Gould of doing?
(a) Stealing their homework.
(b) Stealing their slang.
(c) Misleading them.
(d) Beating them.

5. Why does Abdul Hamid say he burned the Book of Thoth?
(a) It was incomprehensible.
(b) It was too lewd.
(c) It was racist.
(d) He had captured its essence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Abdul Hamid’s translated manuscript?

2. Why does Biff Musclewhite say he had to kill Charlotte?

3. Where does Black Herman go, after handing over Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould?

4. What does Hinkle Von Vampton say Brown has avoided doing?

5. What does Battraville say Americans know very well?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevents Hierophant 1 from taking poison?

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

3. Why does Benoit Battraville say that the Americans are the ones to ask about the Jes Grew?

4. What does PaPaLaBas say is the future of the Jes Grew?

5. What does Battraville reveal to PaPaLaBas?

6. What request does Earline make to PaPaLaBas?

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

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

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

10. What does Battraville say is the difference between VooDoo in America and VooDoo in Haiti?

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