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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 is the name of Zulu’s restaurant?

2. With whom of the following does Samuel trade in flesh?

3. How old is Eliza Two when Aggie cuts her face?

4. Which of the following describes the voice of Lydia’s husband, Dante?

5. At which of the following does Jeffers teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bias does Ailey note is at work among the interviewers for the Federal Writers’ Project?

2. What does Ailey note having taken for granted in Chicasetta and at Routledge?

3. How does Coco become aware of Ailey’s duplicity?

4. For what reason is Lonny Maxwell dismissed from teaching?

5. Why do the women enslaved at Wood Place hesitate to tend to Nick?

6. How does Ailey arrive at the idea of attending graduate school?

7. How does Ailey react to the work she does in the archives for Oludara?

8. Why does Samuel hire Holcomb as overseer?

9. Explicate the significance of the label “left-handed cabin.”

10. How does Whitcomb explain his pressing Ailey harder than other students?

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

Consider the title of the novel. Explicate its significance against the text of the book.

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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