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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 treaties does the novel remark was made and broken?

2. What nickname does Root have for Ailey?

3. At which of the following did Belle teach?

4. What is the name of Ailey’s first high school?

5. Which artist’s work is on display in Belle’s home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Root delay his arrival after Pearl dies?

2. Why does Geoffrey not wear slip-on shoes at work?

3. How is Ailey supposedly rebuked for not accepting punishment alongside Boukie and Baybay?

4. Why does Ailey argue that the strategy to increase male enrollment at Routledge is a failure?

5. What is the excuse Big Thom gives for enrolling Root at Routledge?

6. How does Coco explain having changed her hairstyle in college?

7. What is the significance of the Peach Butt?

8. How does Micco come to own the land he holds?

9. What is the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem?

10. How does Ailey regard her first plane trip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than literary fiction might The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

What function does the front matter serve for the novel? How is that effect achieved?

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