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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 comes from the black freighter?

2. What is the Spiraling Agony?

3. What is the Wallflower Order’s relationship with the Atonist Path?

4. Why did the Jes Grew quit?

5. What does Abdul Hamid say he hopes for, in the future of the black race in America?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What solution does Mr. Mellon propose for containing the Jes Grew?

3. What does Isis want from Moses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the pendant that Hinkle Von Vampton wears around his neck.

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

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 3

One of the epigrams to Mumbo Jumbo, from James Weldon Johnson, says that “the words of the Jes Grew songs “were unprintable, but the tune was irresistible, and belonged to nobody.” (p. 7). Who are the various different parties to whom the Jes Grew songs belong? Who embodies them, who participates them, and who renounces them? What makes the Jes Grew claim certain people and not others?

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