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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 Oludara’s initial offer of pay to Ailey?
2. Which of the following describes the voice of Lydia’s husband, Dante?
3. In what year does Samuel win a land lottery in Georgia?
4. Which of the following does Rebecca note is her research topic?
5. Whom of the following is the first Ailey interviews for her dissertation?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ailey arrive at the idea of attending graduate school?
2. Why does Aggie cut Eliza Two’s face?
3. What occasions the death of Samuel’s father?
4. Why does Ailey hesitate to focus on the Pinchard family for her work in Whitcomb’s class?
5. Why does Whitcomb chide Ailey for her use of “we” in class?
6. Why does Root note having avoided reading the Pinchard family papers?
7. How does Lydia dissuade Dante’s uncle from inserting himself into their nuptials?
8. To what labor is Gideon put after being transported to what would become Georgia?
9. What advice does Oludara offer Ailey about selecting an advisor for her doctoral program?
10. How does Claudius earn the money he uses to secure his freedom?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
How reliable is the primary narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?
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