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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. As which of the following does the novel gloss the name Boukie?

2. Which of the following is Abdul’s line name?

3. Which of the following works is quoted at the beginning of III?

4. How many Black students does Ailey report attend her second high school?

5. In which of the following does Ailey major as an undergraduate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of the Peach Butt?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Summarize the story Helen tells Aggie about menstruation.

9. What is reported as Lydia’s favorite Christmas song?

10. What prompts Ailey to reconcile with Chris Tate instead of with David James?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent can the novel be taken as autobiographical? What in the novel and its context of composition suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Jeffers’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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