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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 Macon neighborhood do Maryse, Chef, and Sadie reside?
2. Which of the following does Maryse lose fighting the Ku Kluxers in Macon?
3. Of which of the following does Michael George speak to Maryse?
4. What color is the truck Maryse, Chef, and Sadie use?
5. To whom is the beginning of the first Klan ascribed in the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was the Second Klan birthed, per the novel?
2. What is the source of the magic of Maryse’s sword?
3. Why does Chef note the Germans she captured taught her card games?
4. What is the meaning of the Shout about Pharaoh in the novel?
5. What meanings associate with the Shout In This Field We Must Die, per the novel?
6. For what purpose does the novel assert Birth of a Nation was made?
7. For what reason do Macon’s police and the Klan not get along?
8. What components of the Klan gathering in Macon does Maryse note?
9. Why is Chef the driver when she, Maryse, and Sadie go hunting?
10. How does Maryse’s first fight against Butcher Clyde, in dream, go for her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 Ring Shout bear as much out?
Essay Topic 2
Assuming that Ring Shout 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 3
To what other writer’s work in your experience does Clark’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?
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