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

2. Which of the following do the three Aunties note feeds Maryse’s sword?

3. Which of the following calls for continued action against the Ku Kluxers in the wake of Sadie’s death?

4. Who provides the weapon Maryse takes to the Angel Oak?

5. Which of the following terms does Ondine use to describe the Night Doctors?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason do the three Aunties give for choosing Maryse as their champion?

2. Who does Maryse rescue from the second floor of a burning Frenchy’s?

3. Why does Butcher Clyde note having spared Maryse in Memphis?

4. How does Bisset explain humorism?

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

6. What attire does Chef have that Maryse envies on the approach to Stone Mountain?

7. Why do Maryse and Chef proceed alone against the Klan gathering on Stone Mountain?

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

9. What are Sadie’s last words?

10. What background information about the Night Doctors does Maryse’s group have?

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 section-division scheme at work in Ring Shout? 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 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 3

In the acknowledgments, Clark asks, “Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—‘copper sun or scarlet sea?’” (183). What significance accrues to his question, and how does it accrue?

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