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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. To which of the following does Ailey compare herself?

2. In which of the following games does Belle specialize?

3. Which of the following does Ailey contract from Abdul?

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

5. Into which of the following clans is Coromantee adopted?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Diane and her husband separate?

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

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

4. What causes the death of Root’s mother?

5. Kiné’s father holds the rank of marabout; what does that rank signify in the novel (131)?

6. What is the origin of the name of Coromantee?

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

8. What occasions the imprisonment of Belle’s brother?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “For the original transgression of this land was not slavery. It was greed, and it could not be contained” (4). To what extent does the text bear out the comment, and how does it do so?

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