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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. What does Reed say is the American motto?
(a) There's no business like show business.
(b) There’s a sucker born every minute.
(c) You can't repeat the past? Of course you can.
(d) The sun never sets on the American empire.

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

3. Where does the Mayor go to at the beginning of the book?
(a) The bar.
(b) The infirmary.
(c) His office.
(d) The police station.

4. What does PaPaLaBas fit for his customers?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Their souls.
(c) Their heads.
(d) Their histories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is surrounded in Haiti, according to the headline the Robber Baron reads?

2. Where is Jes Grew worst?

3. What are the Teutonic knights protecting?

4. What does Reed say is America’s astrological rising sign?

5. What was the outcome of the trial of the Wallflower Order?

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