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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 is the name of the black freighter?

2. What did Osiris ban?

3. Who greets PaPaLaBas and T Malice at the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?

4. How was Moses’ book lost?

5. Why does Hinkle Von Vampton need Nathan Brown to write for the Benign Monster?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is PaPaLaBas’ explanation for Abdul Hamid’s action?

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

4. What request does Earline make to PaPaLaBas?

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

6. What does Battraville say haunts White culture?

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

8. What caused 50,000 Templars to be murdered in 1307?

9. Describe the scene of PaPaLaBas and Black Herman’s arrival at the party.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of Mumbo Jumbo—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

When is Mumbo Jumbo most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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