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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. Whom of the following does Kiné love?

2. In what month does Tut come to Wood Place?

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

4. With which of the following does the novel begin?

5. Which of the following languages does Kiné’s mother speak?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Root appreciate Founder’s Day?

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

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

6. On what is Ailey’s college savings spent, rather than her own collegiate study?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois bear as much out?

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