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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 color of trouser does Maryse wear to Butcher Clyde’s shop?

2. As which of the following does Butcher Clyde describe his relationship to the Ku Kluxers?

3. How many Ku Kluxers do Maryse, Chef, and Sadie successfully bait on the Fourth of July in Macon?

4. Which of the following dishes does Chef note having eaten in France?

5. On which Macon street do Maryse, Chef, and Sadie bait Ku Kluxers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sadie have to sit in the middle when she, Chef, and Maryse go hunting?

2. What does Maryse describe as her fighting clothes?

3. How does Maryse describe the crowd at Frenchy’s?

4. What meanings associate with the Shout In This Field We Must Die, per the novel?

5. How is Maryse accompanied as she visits Butcher Clyde’s shop?

6. What components of the Klan gathering in Macon does Maryse note?

7. What is the meaning of the Shout about Pharaoh in the novel?

8. How was the Second Klan birthed, per the novel?

9. What peculiarity about Ku Kluxers’ human guise can only a few people notice?

10. Why does Nana Jean oppose killing Klan members, as opposed to Ku Kluxers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Ring Shout do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

How reliable is the narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Maryse offers the comment that “They say God is good all the time. Seem he also likes irony” (32). Does the novel bear out or belie the comment? How?

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