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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has to happen before the Jes Grew will stop?

2. What are labanotations?

3. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?

4. What does Hinkle Von Vampton ask Biff Musclewhite to do for him?

5. What makes Hinkle Von Vampton’s boss think that he is losing his marbles?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Thor distrusted?

2. What does Reed say the Jes Grew is seeking?

3. What is Hinkle Von Vampton’s strategy for eliminating the Jes Grew?

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

5. How does Charlotte’s predicament get resolved?

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

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

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

9. Describe Buddy Jackson’s cabaret.

10. Describe the confrontation between Buddy Jackson and Schlitz.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Mumbo Jumbo. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

Identify the most important plot points in Mumbo Jumbo. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the audience for Mumbo Jumbo? What is the ideal reader for Mumbo Jumbo likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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