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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 does Reed say is the American motto?
2. What kind of food is served at Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?
3. Why is Hinkle Von Vampton fired?
4. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?
5. Where do Berbelang and his gang take Biff Musclewhite?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the trolley car driver’s strange experience on account of the black freighter.
2. What does Berbelang say is the guilt Faust carries with him?
3. What does the Jes Grew want?
4. What critique does Abdul Hamid make of PaPaLaBas?
5. What problem is Hinkle Von Vampton having, in recruiting blacks for the Benign Monster?
6. How does Reed characterize America in Mumbo Jumbo?
7. What is the Mu’tafikah’s plan?
8. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular in the 1920s in the Harlem Renaissance?
9. Describe Buddy Jackson’s cabaret.
10. What is Hinkle Von Vampton’s strategy for eliminating the Jes Grew?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what ways is Mumbo Jumbo relevant to contemporary readers? What contemporary issues are in play in the book, and how would the book contribute to contemporary discussion? Cite specific discussions from contemporary sources, and cite specific instances from the book, that describe its contemporary relevance.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What makes Mumbo Jumbo an American novel? How does Reed define America, and how is his definition of America sustained throughout the action of Mumbo Jumbo? How does Reed account for competing visions of what America is?
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