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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Hinkle Von Vampton tell Major Young is the purpose of the ‘Benign Monster’?
2. Where do Hinkle Von Vampton and Safecracker Gould look for the anthology that contains the Jes Grew?
3. What does Ishmael Reed say the Mu’tafikah building resembles?
4. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular during the time period of the book?
5. Why does Reed say JesGrewers came to America?
Short Essay Questions
1. What problem is Hinkle Von Vampton having, in recruiting blacks for the Benign Monster?
2. What affliction is PaPaLaBas trying to relieve the blacks of in North America?
3. Why is Biff Musclewhite needed for the Mu’tafikah’s break-in at the Center for Art Detention?
4. What kind of people did Langston Hughes say were popular in the 1920s in the Harlem Renaissance?
5. What does Berbelang say is the guilt Faust carries with him?
6. What is Mumbo Jumbo’s relationship with history?
7. What is Warren G. Harding’s role in Mumbo Jumbo?
8. Describe the cover of the first issue of the Benign Monster.
9. Describe the trolley car driver’s strange experience on account of the black freighter.
10. What is PaPaLaBas’ practice?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the beginning of Mumbo Jumbo, Reed quotes Louis Armstrong as saying that “the spirit hits them and they follow.” (p. 7). What is the spirit, and where does it lead people in Mumbo Jumbo?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate your own reading of Mumbo Jumbo—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 3
What makes Mumbo Jumbo an American novel? How does Reed define America, and how is his definition of America sustained throughout the action of Mumbo Jumbo? How does Reed account for competing visions of what America is?
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