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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 games does Sadie note wanting to play?

2. With which of the following does Chef bait Ku Kluxers in Macon?

3. With which of the following does the novel begin?

4. Which of the following does Maryse’s brother fail to teach her?

5. What color is the truck Maryse, Chef, and Sadie use?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Maryse describe as her fighting clothes?

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

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

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

8. Why does Chef note the Germans she captured taught her card games?

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

10. What components of the Klan gathering in Macon does Maryse note?

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

How reliable is the narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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