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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. Approximately how large is the city of Macon’s population in the novel?

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

3. What kind of shotgun does Emma wield?

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

5. In what year does the main action of the novel occur?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Maryse describe as her fighting clothes?

3. For what reason do Macon’s police and the Klan not get along?

4. For what purpose does the novel assert Birth of a Nation was made?

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

6. How does Maryse’s first fight against Butcher Clyde, in dream, go for her?

7. How does Butcher Clyde’s advertisement make clear that his is a Klan establishment?

8. Why does Chef prefer rats to lice?

9. To what is Chef’s nickname ascribed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Clark’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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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