Mumbo Jumbo Quizzes

Mumbo Jumbo Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed May 18, 2021

1 Where does Jes Grew begin in the novel?

St. Louis

Manhattan

New Orleans

Chicago
2 What happens to the Mayor?

He abdicates his post

He ignores the menace

He is infected

He remains immune
3 Jes Grew is closest to

painting

poetry

sex

jazz
4 Jes Grew is described as a/an

anti-plague

anti-trend

anti-scourge

anti-epidemic
5 What is Jes Grew seeking?

Its text

Its soul

Its end

Its followers
6 What do the Mu'tafikah do?

Protect the Atonist viewpoint

Protect Jes Grew

Implement Talking Androids

Take back stolen art
7 Jes Grew came to America through

wheat

cotton

gold

molasses
8 Who is supposedly the "anti-Jes Grew president"?

Harding

Hoover

Roosevelt

Coolidge
9 What will the Talking Android do?

Mutate Jes Grew

Cast aspersions on Jes Grew

Discover what Jes Grew really is

Expand Jes Grew
10 Who is Schlitz, the Sarge of Yorktown?

A politician

A musician

An artnapper

A gangster
11 Where are the Atonists making war?

Dominican Republic

Philippines

Haiti

Cuba
12 PaPa LaBas is described as all the following except

self-assured

powerful

mythical

young
13 Earline is upset in the beginning because of

Jes Grew

money issues

Berbelang

Charlotte leaving
14 Where is the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral?

Washington Heights

Brooklyn

Flushing

Harlem
15 The party Earline takes PaPa to is

for a politician

a rent party

for anti-lynching

for Jes Grew
16 Charlotte is leaving the Kathedral to

go to the stage

become a mother

go to Haiti

join the Mu'tafikah
17 Who forgets to feed the loa?

PaPa

Berbelang

Charlotte

Earline
18 Who is T Malice?

A Mu'tafikah

An Atonist

The Talking Android

PaPa's chaffeur
19 Woodrow Wilson Jefferson is the son of a/an

preacher

drunk

teacher

doctor
20 Who, according to Reed, woke the American Black man up from his sleep?

Langston Hughes

James Weldon Johnson

Alain Locke

Marcus Garvey
21 Thor Wintergreen is all the following except

a Mu'tafikah

rich

a member of the Kathedral

white
22 Black Herman is a/an

reverend

medium

occultist

witch doctor
23 Abdul Hamid is a/an

real estate tycoon

magazine editor

book publisher

art consultant
24 Abdul says all the following regarding PaPa and his work, except that

it is too religious and strict

it is "jungle ways" and superstitious

it holds back progress

it is too carnal
25 Abdul is a/an

Black Nationalist

accomodationist

HooDoo practitioner

Marxist

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