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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 title of the public lecture Ailey is obliged to attend?
2. With which of the following does Song (8) begin?
3. Which of the following does the author note her mother published?
4. With which of the following does Song (5) begin?
5. Which of the following is quoted at the beginning of XI?
Short Essay Questions
1. What occasions the death of Samuel’s father?
2. How does Coco become aware of Ailey’s duplicity?
3. What explanation is given in the novel for the hindered growth of many enslaved women and girls?
4. How does Ailey react to the work she does in the archives for Oludara?
5. Explicate the significance of the label “left-handed cabin.”
6. How does Whitcomb explain his pressing Ailey harder than other students?
7. Why does Aggie purpose to send Nick and his family into hiding?
8. To what labor is Gideon put after being transported to what would become Georgia?
9. What does Ailey note having taken for granted in Chicasetta and at Routledge?
10. What bias does Ailey note is at work among the interviewers for the Federal Writers’ Project?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the title of the novel. Explicate its significance against the text of the book.
Essay Topic 2
Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?
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