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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. Which of the following is served at Nana Jean’s table?

2. What is the name of Butcher Clyde’s shop?

3. What kind of shotgun does Emma wield?

4. In which of the following does Chef indulge?

5. To which of the following does Maryse compare Butcher Clyde’s customers?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what is Chef’s nickname ascribed?

2. Why is Chef the driver when she, Maryse, and Sadie go hunting?

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

4. What purpose do the bottles on Nana Jean’s tree reportedly serve?

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

6. How does Maryse know that the three Aunties are not human?

7. What ingredients go into Mama’s Water?

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

9. How does Lester, prompted by Sadie, explain the existence of white people?

10. What does Maryse describe as her fighting clothes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrating protagonist of the novel is a Black woman. How would the novel differ if the protagonist a Black man, and why would it differ in those ways?

Essay Topic 2

What is the overall attitude of the novel toward the supernatural? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

In the acknowledgments, Clark asks, “Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—‘copper sun or scarlet sea?’” (183). What significance accrues to his question, and how does it accrue?

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