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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 does Geoffrey’s doctor note should be used to flavor his greens?

2. Which of the following does Chris Tate give Ailey?

3. What is the name of the clinic where Ailey volunteers?

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

5. To which sorority does Ailey intend to pledge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem?

2. What does Ailey note attracted Belle to the house in which she raised her children?

3. Why does Root appreciate Founder’s Day?

4. Why does Ailey note she lost her desire for school in high school?

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

6. For what reason does Belle recommend eating greens?

7. Why does Ailey regard the teachers at her second high school as “serious pushovers” (96)?

8. What materials is Ailey expected to bring to college?

9. What occasions Geoffrey’s holiday outburst at his mother?

10. How does Ailey regard her first plane trip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is “the long-haired lady” Ailey remarks upon seeing throughout her life? How does the text indicate as much?

Essay Topic 2

What effect on the reader does the paired narratives—that of the Songs and that of the main narrative—have? How does the text create that effect?

Essay Topic 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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