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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 object to, in how people look at Van Gogh?
(a) Their solemnity.
(b) Their reverence.
(c) Their excitement.
(d) Their agitation.

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

3. What is the danger if the Jes Grew becomes pandemic?
(a) The end of the Mayor’s career.
(b) The end of black people.
(c) The end of civilization.
(d) The destruction of the city.

4. Where is Woodrow Wilson Jefferson going, in Chapter 11?
(a) Chicago.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) New Orleans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would happen if the guarded ‘booty’ got into the ‘wrong hands’?

2. Where does the Jes Grew aim to settle?

3. What does Reed say is the American motto?

4. What does Earline say PaPaLaBas mixes concrete events with?

5. How does Biff Musclewhite characterize America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Buddy Jackson’s cabaret.

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

3. Describe Nathan Brown’s status in the black arts scene.

4. Why is Biff Musclewhite needed for the Mu’tafikah’s break-in at the Center for Art Detention?

5. What does Berbelang say is the guilt Faust carries with him?

6. What is Mumbo Jumbo’s relationship with history?

7. What critique does Abdul Hamid make of PaPaLaBas?

8. Why is Thor distrusted?

9. What is Warren G. Harding’s role in Mumbo Jumbo?

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

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