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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Battraville say is after the white people who build highways?
(a) Ghosts of their victims.
(b) Their god.
(c) Their own whiteness.
(d) Devils.

2. Why does Hinkle Von Vampton need Nathan Brown to write for the Benign Monster?
(a) To give it guts.
(b) To give it class.
(c) To give it legitimacy.
(d) To give it verve.

3. What ornaments the box in which the Book is kept?
(a) Egrets and herons.
(b) Men and women and temples.
(c) Bulls and cows.
(d) Snakes and scorpions.

4. How long does Black Herman’s treatment of Earline last?
(a) A couple of days.
(b) An hour.
(c) A day.
(d) A couple of hours.

5. What brainstorm does Hinkle Von Vampton have about the Talking Android?
(a) He will keep the identity of the Talking Android secret.
(b) He will brainwash PaPaLaBas.
(c) He will become the Talking Android himself.
(d) He will put Safecracker Gould in blackface.

6. What criticism does Battraville say is leveled against Haitian art?
(a) It is too universal.
(b) It is not particular enough.
(c) It is not universal.
(d) It is transcendent.

7. What did the Knights Templars do to raise their standing?
(a) Defeated the first crusade.
(b) Assimilated Islam’s secrets.
(c) Saved the second crusade.
(d) Protected the crusaders.

8. What comes from the black freighter?
(a) Explosions of light.
(b) The sound of laughter.
(c) The pulse of drums.
(d) The scent of lavender.

9. How did Moses’ mother cry when the looting and rioting was going on?
(a) Softly, distractedly.
(b) Quietly, with restraint.
(c) Laughingly.
(d) Viscerally, wildly.

10. How does Reed describe the interior of the black freighter?
(a) Classical.
(b) Immaculate.
(c) Tugboat shabby.
(d) Beautiful.

11. Who greets PaPaLaBas and T Malice at the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?
(a) A cop.
(b) A spirit.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Earline.

12. Where is Berbelang shot?
(a) In the throat.
(b) In the face.
(c) In the guts.
(d) In the heart.

13. Where does Black Herman go, after handing over Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould?
(a) To find a missing manuscript.
(b) To track down a jewel.
(c) To take some time off.
(d) To find a girl.

14. Why does PaPaLaBas say that Osiris had to record his dance?
(a) To feed her brother.
(b) To assuage the gods.
(c) To take power.
(d) To feed the spirits.

15. What does Battraville want to do with the man he is looking for?
(a) Sacrifice him to a new loa.
(b) Feed him to a new loa.
(c) Get him to kill a new loa.
(d) Expose him to a new loa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is running for President on the Jes Grew ticket?

2. What did Osiris ban?

3. Who does Black Herman say is ready to meet with PaPaLaBas in Chapter 42?

4. What was Set known for, in PaPaLaBas’ story?

5. What inscription is embroidered on the flag that hangs from the ceiling of the stateroom on the black freighter?

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