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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. On which Macon street do Maryse, Chef, and Sadie bait Ku Kluxers?
2. To which of the following does Maryse compare Sadie?
3. Which of the following do Maryse, Chef, and Sadie watch Molly dissect?
4. Which of the following does Maryse’s brother fail to teach her?
5. About which of the following does Lester hold forth?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Maryse describe as her fighting clothes?
2. Why does Nana Jean oppose killing Klan members, as opposed to Ku Kluxers?
3. What meanings associate with the Shout In This Field We Must Die, per the novel?
4. How does Maryse characterize juke joints?
5. What ingredients go into Mama’s Water?
6. How does Lester, prompted by Sadie, explain the existence of white people?
7. Why does Sadie have to sit in the middle when she, Chef, and Maryse go hunting?
8. What components of the Klan gathering in Macon does Maryse note?
9. For what purpose does the novel assert Birth of a Nation was made?
10. Why does Chef note the Germans she captured taught her card games?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the section-division scheme at work in Ring Shout? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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