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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 does Root give to Ailey in its first edition?

2. How old is Ailey when Geoffrey’s father dies?

3. In what city does Root meet Du Bois?

4. Which of the following works is quoted at the beginning of I?

5. For how many weeks does Midas court Aggie before asking her to marry him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What offenses does the novel note prompted the transportation of English criminals to Georgia?

3. What is the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem?

4. For what reason does Belle recommend eating greens?

5. Summarize the story Helen tells Aggie about menstruation.

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

7. How does Lydia justify moving from the room she shares with Ailey into Coco’s room?

8. What does the novel imply is the meaning of “siddity”?

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

10. Why does Root dislike homecoming at his college?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How reliable is the primary narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, 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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