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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. How long is the final paper Ailey must write for Whitcomb’s class?

2. Which of the following theorists does Samuel read?

3. In what North Carolina city does Ailey live while attending graduate school?

4. To which of the following societies was Jeffers elected a member?

5. Which of the following is Oludara’s scholarly rival?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lydia avoid being placed on her college’s “Dirty Thirty” list?

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. How does Ailey address Rebecca’s questions about the Pinchard descent of her own family?

5. How does Lady explain the departure of her parents to her children?

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

7. To what labor is Gideon put after being transported to what would become Georgia?

8. What explanation is given in the novel for the hindered growth of many enslaved women and girls?

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

10. How does Rebecca regard Ailey’s presence in their common graduate program?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Jeffers’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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