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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. In what month do Lydia and Dante wed?

2. What is the name of the archive librarian at Ailey’s graduate school?

3. Which of the following is the name of Samuel’s father?

4. Which of the following does Lydia note preferring?

5. Which of the following is cultivated on Ezekiel’s plantation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the last thing Lydia sees before dying?

2. What advice does Oludara offer Ailey about selecting an advisor for her doctoral program?

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

4. Why does Aggie cut Eliza Two’s face?

5. What occasions the death of Samuel’s father?

6. How does Claudius earn the money he uses to secure his freedom?

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

8. Why does Aggie purpose to send Nick and his family into hiding?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than literary fiction might The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? 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

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?

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