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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. In which of the following are stories about the Night Doctors known to be current?

2. Which of the following seeks to console Maryse for the loss of Sadie?

3. Which of the following recites verse about the Night Doctors?

4. Maryse sees a spirit from which of the following as she fights in Frenchy’s?

5. What remains of the Klan members subsumed into the Grand Cyclops?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who accompanies Maryse to Stone Mountain from Macon?

2. How does Bisset explain humorism?

3. What happens when Maryse stabs the Angel Oak?

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

5. How does Butcher Clyde defeat Maryse at the attack on Frenchy’s?

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

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

8. What justification for the attack on Frenchy’s does Butcher Clyde cite to his followers?

9. What injuries does Sadie sustain at a burning Frenchy’s?

10. What meaning does “cyclops” carry in regards to the Grand Cyclops?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Ring Shout on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the type of text? How does it do so?

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

Maryse offers the comment that “They say God is good all the time. Seem he also likes irony” (32). Does the novel bear out or belie the comment? How?

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