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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 Shout is detailed in Notation 7?

2. Which of the following recites verse about the Night Doctors?

3. From what source is the Shout Eve and Adam taken in the novel?

4. Which of the following does Butcher Clyde raise amid the attack on Frenchy’s?

5. How many hours’ drive does Maryse have from Macon to Stone Mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What meaning is attributed to the Shout Eve and Adam in the novel?

2. Who accompanies Maryse to Stone Mountain from Macon?

3. Why does Butcher Clyde note the hate of the Klan is not sufficiently potent for his kind?

4. What meaning does “cyclops” carry in regards to the Grand Cyclops?

5. Why does Maryse consider accepting Butcher Clyde’s offer?

6. Why does Maryse note Macon lacks woods?

7. What injuries does Sadie sustain at a burning Frenchy’s?

8. How does Butcher Clyde defeat Maryse at the attack on Frenchy’s?

9. What does Maryse note is the strangest thing Bisset wears when he first greets her?

10. What promise does Nana Jean attempt to secure from Maryse as she goes to seek the Night Doctors?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 Ring Shout bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

The narrating protagonist of the novel is a Black woman. How would the novel differ if the protagonist was a white woman, and why would it differ in those ways?

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