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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. To which of the following does Maryse compare Butcher Clyde?
2. Which of the following does Maryse see advertised in Macon?
3. In which of the following does Sadie indulge?
4. From which of the following do Maryse and her group receive intelligence reports?
5. To which of the following does Butcher Clyde compare Maryse?
Short Essay Questions
1. What attire does Maryse note preferring, and why?
2. What meanings associate with the Shout In This Field We Must Die, per the novel?
3. What is the source of the magic of Maryse’s sword?
4. What does Maryse describe as her fighting clothes?
5. Why is Chef the driver when she, Maryse, and Sadie go hunting?
6. What purpose do the bottles on Nana Jean’s tree reportedly serve?
7. Why does Nana Jean oppose killing Klan members, as opposed to Ku Kluxers?
8. How does Butcher Clyde’s advertisement make clear that his is a Klan establishment?
9. How does Lester, prompted by Sadie, explain the existence of white people?
10. Why does Chef prefer rats to lice?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Assuming that Ring Shout should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
The narrating protagonist of the novel is a Black woman. How would the novel differ if the protagonist was a white woman, and why would it differ in those ways?
Essay Topic 3
In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Ring Shout bear as much out?
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