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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 Moses do at Mt. Horeb?

2. What tradition does PaPaLaBas say Osiris began?

3. What is the name of the black freighter?

4. What is depicted on the pendant Hinkle Von Vampton wears in the photo in the New York Sun?

5. Who does Hinkle Von Vampton think will be a good Talking Android?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevents Hierophant 1 from taking poison?

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

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

4. What happens when the box with the Book is brought into the party?

5. What does Isis want from Moses?

6. How is Moses’ concert received?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the most important plot points in Mumbo Jumbo. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning of Mumbo Jumbo, Reed quotes Louis Armstrong as saying that “the spirit hits them and they follow.” (p. 7). What is the spirit, and where does it lead people in Mumbo Jumbo?

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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