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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 Battraville say is after the white people who build highways?

2. Why did the Jes Grew quit?

3. What did Osiris ban?

4. Where is Berbelang shot?

5. How was Jethro’s music received when Moses played it in Egypt?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Benoit Battraville say that the Americans are the ones to ask about the Jes Grew?

4. How is Moses’ concert received?

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

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

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

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 request does Earline make to PaPaLaBas?

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

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

In Chapter 13, Abdul says that he put together his education like a quilt, “a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted.” (p. 37). Is this the best metaphor for the storytelling of Mumbo Jumbo, or does the novel provide a better explanation of its technique? Explain why this or another explanation is the most fitting metaphor for the book’s construction.

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