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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9 (Chapter 52).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael Reed compare Hinkle Von Vampton to?
(a) A horseman of the apocalypse.
(b) A Blake poem.
(c) A poem by James Weldon Johnson.
(d) A Hieronymus Bosch painting.

3. Why did the Knights Templar lose their function in 1303?
(a) Trade with the Middle East had fallen off.
(b) The Holy Land had been won.
(c) The Crusaders were no longer going to fight.
(d) The Holy Land was controlled by Muslims.

4. Why does Reed say JesGrewers came to America?
(a) Because of steel and guns.
(b) Because of lace.
(c) Because of the railroad.
(d) Because of cotton.

5. Where are the Mu’tafikah sending their loot?
(a) To South America.
(b) To Australia.
(c) To Asia.
(d) To Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hinkle Von Vampton accuse his boss of?

2. How has the Wallflower Order figured out how to undermine the Jes Grew?

3. How does Reed characterize Berbelang?

4. What does Berbelang object to, in how people look at Van Gogh?

5. How was Moses’ book lost?

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