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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Abdul Hamid’s translated manuscript?
(a) In the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral.
(b) Lost in the mail.
(c) In Abdul Hamid’s mother’s apartment.
(d) With a publisher.

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

3. Who is Battraville looking for in America?
(a) PaPaLaBas.
(b) Hinkle Von Vampton.
(c) Biff Musclewhite.
(d) Abdul Hamid.

4. What is inside the box?
(a) The Book.
(b) A series of boxes that are ultimately empty.
(c) Loose, disconnected papers.
(d) A bull's horn.

5. Who does Black Herman say is ready to meet with PaPaLaBas in Chapter 42?
(a) The police.
(b) The visitors in the harbor.
(c) The remnants of Berbelang’s gang.
(d) The directors of the Center for Art Detention.

6. Why did the Knights Templar lose their function in 1303?
(a) The Crusaders were no longer going to fight.
(b) The Holy Land was controlled by Muslims.
(c) The Holy Land had been won.
(d) Trade with the Middle East had fallen off.

7. How was Moses’ book lost?
(a) He hid it from his children.
(b) It was stolen from him.
(c) He burned it.
(d) It was taken back by Isis.

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

9. What does Reed say the Book gave to Hugues de Payens?
(a) All the old dance moves.
(b) The sacred spirit.
(c) The worst of itself.
(d) Recipes for virtue.

10. What is the name of the black freighter?
(a) The Black Hope.
(b) The White Death.
(c) The Black Plume.
(d) The Rusty Skull.

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

12. What does Buddy Jackson’s story consist of, when he explains how he became interested in the Book?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Race hatred.
(d) Filial affection.

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

14. Why does Biff Musclewhite say he had to kill Charlotte?
(a) She was going to kill herself.
(b) She was trying to get away.
(c) She had a gun.
(d) She was out of her mind.

15. What does Battraville say Americans know very well?
(a) Religion.
(b) Shorthand.
(c) History.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the Knights Templar were slain in 1307?

2. Who greets PaPaLaBas and T Malice at the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?

3. How was Jethro’s music received when Moses played it in Egypt?

4. What does Reed say is Masonry’s relationship with the Knights Templar?

5. What does Ishmael Reed compare Earline to in Chapter 40?

(see the answer keys)

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