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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 number notation describes the Shout In This Field We Must Die?
3. In which of the following units did Chef serve?
4. Approximately how large is the city of Macon’s population in the novel?
5. Which of the following does Maryse’s brother fail to teach her?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Lester, prompted by Sadie, explain the existence of white people?
2. How do Molly’s operatives signal their arrival?
3. What purpose do the bottles on Nana Jean’s tree reportedly serve?
4. To what industry does Maryse ascribe Macon’s existence?
5. How was the Second Klan birthed, per the novel?
6. What is the meaning of the Shout about Pharaoh in the novel?
7. What does Butcher Clyde note is his “grand plan”?
8. For what reason do Macon’s police and the Klan not get along?
9. How does Butcher Clyde’s advertisement make clear that his is a Klan establishment?
10. For what purpose does the novel assert Birth of a Nation was made?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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