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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8 (Chapters 50-51).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?
(a) People who had been to Africa.
(b) People who sampled different cultures.
(c) People who drank and smoked liberally.
(d) People who exercised strict restraint.

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

3. What is the “Loa that Jes Grew here in America among our people” (p. 128)?
(a) Rock & roll.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Fusion.
(d) Blues.

4. What does Ishmael Reed say the Mu’tafikah building resembles?
(a) Black culture.
(b) The Jes Grew.
(c) The future of Jazz.
(d) Western history.

5. What does Reed say Africans have fallen in love with, in North America?
(a) Terror.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Death.
(d) The Jes Grew.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Reed describe the interior of the black freighter?

3. What are the Teutonic knights protecting?

4. How has Thor tried to be trusted?

5. What does Battraville want to do with the man he is looking for?

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