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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7 (Chapters 42-49).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael Reed compare Earline to in Chapter 40?
(a) A mermaid.
(b) A snake.
(c) An ant.
(d) A goddness.

2. When were the Knights Templar founded?
(a) 421 A.D.
(b) 504 B.C.
(c) 1118 A.D.
(d) 981 A.D.

3. What does Hinkle Von Vampton tell Major Young is the purpose of the ‘Benign Monster’?
(a) To pacify revolutionary blacks.
(b) To get whites loose.
(c) To stir up the revolutionary blacks.
(d) To pacify whites as they enter black culture.

4. How does Biff Musclewhite explain Charlotte’s confusion about what happened last night?
(a) She must have drunk too much.
(b) There must have been something in the air.
(c) She might be coming down with something.
(d) There might have been something in her food.

5. Why is Woodrow Wilson Jefferson prevented from entering Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?
(a) He is not dressed appropriately.
(b) He looks hispanic.
(c) He is not dark-skinned enough.
(d) He is too dark-skinned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the “Loa that Jes Grew here in America among our people” (p. 128)?

2. What does Biff Musclewhite reminisce about, with Charlotte?

3. What does Earline’s scarf turn into, when Black Herman throws it on the floor?

4. What does Reed say Africans have fallen in love with, in North America?

5. Where are the Mu’tafikah sending their loot?

(see the answer key)

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