View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?
(a) It is not as damaging as lifelong slavery to the victim.
(b) It is part of the local cuisine.
(c) It is better than cooking a man without eating him.
(d) It is essential the redemption and protection of the culture.

2. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?
(a) She uses too much slang.
(b) She is always whispering.
(c) She never finishes her sentences.
(d) She does not speak English.

3. What is Berbelang’s hat decorated with?
(a) Scarabs.
(b) Snakeskin.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Feathers.

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

5. What has to happen before the Jes Grew will stop?
(a) It will cohabit with what it is after.
(b) It will be purged by the most stringent repression.
(c) It will mingle with the blood of the land.
(d) It will become the spirit of America.

6. What does Reed say Berbelang known as?
(a) A lounge lizard.
(b) A scholar.
(c) A nuisance.
(d) An oddball.

7. How does Biff Musclewhite characterize America?
(a) A castle built on money.
(b) A stolen trinket.
(c) A ditch filled with dead Indians.
(d) A cheap liar.

8. What are the Teutonic knights protecting?
(a) The Christians' lands.
(b) The pagans’ souls.
(c) The Christian alters.
(d) The fetishes of the pagans.

9. Why is Hinkle Von Vampton fired?
(a) For submitting to the Haitian invasion.
(b) For inaccuracies in his report on the Haitian invasion.
(c) For giving the Haitian invasion a headline.
(d) For failing to report on the Haitian invasion.

10. What does Reed say is America’s astrological rising sign?
(a) Gemini.
(b) Taurus.
(c) Gemini.
(d) Cancer.

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

12. What makes Hinkle Von Vampton’s boss think that he is losing his marbles?
(a) He misses every deadline for a month.
(b) He shows up drunk to work.
(c) He leaves a headline in the past tense.
(d) His articles are filled with errors.

13. What do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould learn about the anthology?
(a) That it doesn't exist.
(b) That the words are unprintable.
(c) That it isn't ready yet.
(d) That it has already been distributed.

14. What kind of food is served at Buddy Jackson’s cabaret?
(a) Thai.
(b) Indonesian.
(c) American.
(d) African.

15. Where does Hinkle Von Vampton work?
(a) The Wallflower Order.
(b) The New York Tribune.
(c) The police station.
(d) The New York Sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Zuzu when the reader meets her?

2. Whom does Biff Musclewhite say Thor reminds him of?

3. What does the Robber Baron examine in Chapter 9?

4. What does Hinkle Von Vampton ask Biff Musclewhite to do for him?

5. Where do Berbelang and his gang take Biff Musclewhite?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 520 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample