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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Earline say PaPaLaBas mixes concrete events with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Warfare.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Politics.

2. What is the only cure for the Jes Grew?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Anesthesia.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Incarceration.

3. Where does the Jes Grew aim to settle?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) Africa.

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

5. What are Berbelang and the other Mu’tafikah drinking?
(a) Wine.
(b) Gin.
(c) Vermouth.
(d) Bourbon.

6. What does Reed say the Teutonic Knights do instead of raiding the Temples of Heathens?
(a) Pollute their alters.
(b) Enact their blood.
(c) Spill their blood.
(d) Demand tribute.

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

8. What does PaPaLaBas say men will turn to before the end of the century?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Politics.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Superstition.

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

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

11. Where is Jes Grew worst?
(a) The American northwest.
(b) The American west.
(c) The American cities.
(d) The American south.

12. What is developed to cure the Jes Grew?
(a) A cure consisting of pills.
(b) Work camps.
(c) A disinfectant bath.
(d) A talking android.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Earline starts to discuss the Jes Grew, what does Berbelang do to interrupt her?

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

3. What are the Teutonic knights protecting?

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

5. What does Ishmael Reed compare Hinkle Von Vampton to?

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