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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. What color trouser does Maryse wear to Stone Mountain?

2. In what state does Bisset search for the Angel Oak?

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

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

5. Who is the source of the Shout detailed in Notation 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason do the three Aunties give for choosing Maryse as their champion?

2. What happens when Maryse stabs the Angel Oak?

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

4. Why does Maryse note Macon lacks woods?

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

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

7. Who accompanies Maryse to Stone Mountain from Macon?

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

9. How does Bisset explain hepatoscopy?

10. What are Sadie’s last words?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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