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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 would happen if the guarded ‘booty’ got into the ‘wrong hands’?

2. What does Hinkle Von Vampton accuse his boss of?

3. Where did the Mu’tafikah meet, to begin their work of repatriating idols?

4. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?

5. What does Carl Jung say the Great War was useful for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What accusation does Yellow Jack make to Berbelang?

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

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

5. What does Berbelang say is the guilt Faust carries with him?

6. How is Mumbo Jumbo different from most novels?

7. What is the significance of the siege in Haiti?

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

9. What definitions of the Jes Grew are offered at the beginning of Mumbo Jumbo?

10. Describe the interview between Hinkle Von Vampton and Abdul Hamid.

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

Would you recommend Mumbo Jumbo? For what purposes would you recommend Mumbo Jumbo, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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