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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. Who is running for President on the Jes Grew ticket?

2. What did James Frazer call the Black Mud Sound?

3. Who woke Moses in the temple of Osiris and Isis?

4. What brainstorm does Hinkle Von Vampton have about the Talking Android?

5. How has the Wallflower Order figured out how to undermine the Jes Grew?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning of the chart inserted in the historical account leading up to Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould’s arrest?

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

3. What does Abdul Hamid’s letter to PaPaLaBas say about the Book?

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

5. What request does Earline make to PaPaLaBas?

6. How is Moses’ concert received?

7. What prevents Hierophant 1 from taking poison?

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

9. What does Battraville reveal to PaPaLaBas?

10. What is PaPaLaBas’ explanation of Earline’s seduction of the trolley car driver?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What does the experience of the Mu’tafikah tell you about making art? Why should art be kept close to the people who create it? Why is art out of context dangerous, or lifeless? What does that mean for Mumbo Jumbo the novel? What is the proper home for this book?

Essay Topic 3

Mumbo Jumbo presents a number of different African and African-American arts—minstrel shows, jazz, a cabaret, in addition to poetry and religious fetishes. Which art is most emblematic of the art of Mumbo Jumbo itself? Why?

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