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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 dream is Ruby pursuing in the novel’s epilogue?

2. What is inside the package Caleb gives to Lancaster during the meeting in Chapter 8?

3. How is Ruby’s appearance transformed in Chapter 5?

4. What is the name of the country club where Caleb and Lancaster meet in Chapter 8?

5. What is the name of the book Hippolyta found inside the Winthrop House?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Captain Lancaster curse Horace in Chapter 7? What is the result?

2. What two pieces of information does Ruby discover about Caleb at the end of Chapter 5? How does she react?

3. What was the expression in Ulysses’s eyes as he died? What was the reason for this expression, according to Montrose in Chapter 6?

4. Which two men accost Horace in Chapter 7, and what do they have? What do they want from Horace?

5. According to Caleb at the end of Chapter 7, why did Captain Lancaster curse Horace?

6. What happens to Ruby on New Year’s Eve, as revealed in Chapter 5?

7. Who was Ulysses? What can the reader gather about him, based on Montrose’s description in Chapter 6?

8. Who was Dick Rowland? Of what was he accused and what happened as a result, according to Montrose in Chapter 6?

9. What job does Caleb give Ruby in Chapter 5? What does he offer her in return?

10. According to Henry on page 289, what is he? What does he want?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel, Lovecraft Country. How does the title reflect the main characters? How does the title reflect the novel’s themes and conflicts? How does the title’s meaning change over the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing how the author uses characters and behaviors to develop and strengthen the theme of racial oppression.

Essay Topic 3

Atticus finds himself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the other characters.

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