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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 calls for continued action against the Ku Kluxers in the wake of Sadie’s death?

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

3. How many humors does Bisset note exist?

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

5. How many hours’ drive does Maryse have from Macon to Stone Mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Sadie’s last words?

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

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

4. How do the three Aunties explain Maryse being able to reach them despite their decreasing power?

5. For what purpose does Maryse’s group assume the Ku Kluxers took captives at Frenchy’s?

6. How does Bisset explain hepatoscopy?

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

8. Why does Maryse note that the attack on Frenchy’s comes at the worst possible time?

9. What does Maryse note is the strangest thing Bisset wears when he first greets her?

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

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

Overall, what is the most important theme of Ring Shout. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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