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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Berbelang say would doom the Mu’tafikah?
(a) If the idols cannot all be returned on time.
(b) If the Talking Android cannot be taught to dance.
(c) If there is racial memory in the white man’s soul.
(d) If Thor betrays them to the police.

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

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

4. What is Schlitz’ relationship with Buddy Jackson?
(a) They are leaders of competing powers.
(b) They are colleagues.
(c) They are rival gangsters.
(d) They are close friends.

5. What do Protestant editorial writers compare the Jes Grew to?
(a) A boll weevil.
(b) A shark.
(c) A gutter.
(d) A madhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James Weldon Johnson justify cannibalism in Haiti?

2. What does Hinkle Von Vampton accuse his boss of?

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

4. Why does PaPaLaBas say he cannot understand Earline?

5. What has to happen before the Jes Grew will stop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the cover of the first issue of the Benign Monster.

2. Describe the trolley car driver’s strange experience on account of the black freighter.

3. What definitions of the Jes Grew are offered at the beginning of Mumbo Jumbo?

4. What affliction is PaPaLaBas trying to relieve the blacks of in North America?

5. How does Charlotte’s predicament get resolved?

6. What critique does Abdul Hamid make of PaPaLaBas?

7. What accusation does Yellow Jack make to Berbelang?

8. How does Black Herman cure Earline of the possession by the scent of the lavender from the Black Plume?

9. How does Biff Musclewhite free himself after the heist?

10. What predicament does Charlotte find herself in with regard to Biff Musclewhite?

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