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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 does Butcher Clyde wield against Maryse?

2. Which of the following is noted in Maryse’s book of folktales?

3. Which of the following organs do the Night Doctors remove from Maryse?

4. In what year does Bisset search for the Angel Oak?

5. With which of the following does Five begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What promise does Nana Jean attempt to secure from Maryse as she goes to seek the Night Doctors?

2. Why does Butcher Clyde note having spared Maryse in Memphis?

3. What background information about the Night Doctors does Maryse’s group have?

4. Why does Butcher Clyde note the hate of the Klan is not sufficiently potent for his kind?

5. Who does Maryse rescue from the second floor of a burning Frenchy’s?

6. What are Sadie’s last words?

7. Why is it suggested the Night Doctors might intervene against the Ku Kluxers?

8. Why does Maryse consider accepting Butcher Clyde’s offer?

9. What price does Bisset note having paid to the Night Doctors?

10. Why does Maryse note Macon lacks woods?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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