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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (Chapters 13-17).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is surrounded in Haiti, according to the headline the Robber Baron reads?
(a) The Marines.
(b) The voodoo generals.
(c) The President.
(d) The slave leaders.

2. Who does Ishmael Reed credit with developing the “grapevine telegraph?
(a) Charlie Parker.
(b) Warren G. Harding.
(c) Booker T. Washington.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

3. What does Earline say PaPaLaBas mixes concrete events with?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Poetry.

4. How is African-American painting described in the newspaper?
(a) Radical.
(b) Sophisticated.
(c) Primitive.
(d) Spiritual.

5. How does Reed characterize the outbreak of Jes Grew?
(a) Sporadic.
(b) Consistent.
(c) Predictable.
(d) Incremental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused New Jersey youths to be fired from their job?

2. Why does Reed say the Atonists relish Death?

3. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?

4. Where does Hinkle Von Vampton work?

5. What are Knockings?

(see the answer key)

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