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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. How old is Sadie in the novel?

2. Of what wood is the stock of Sadie’s gun made?

3. With whom does Chef take up at Frenchy’s?

4. Which of the following does Maryse lose fighting the Ku Kluxers in Macon?

5. Next to which of the following is Butcher Clyde’s shop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Butcher Clyde note is his “grand plan”?

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

3. What ingredients go into Mama’s Water?

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

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

8. What attire does Maryse note preferring, and why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Maryse makes much of particular folktales in her narration. What effect does the invocation of those folktales have on reading the novel? How is the effect achieved?

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

To what genre other than fantasy might Ring Shout be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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