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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 color trouser does Maryse wear to Stone Mountain?

2. To which of the following does Maryse compare herself?

3. Who is the source of the Shout detailed in Notation 7?

4. To which of the following are the Night Doctors compared?

5. Which of the following does Maryse think on most as she seeks the Night Doctors?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Maryse note Macon lacks woods?

3. Why does Maryse note that the attack on Frenchy’s comes at the worst possible time?

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

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

6. How do the three Aunties explain Maryse being able to reach them despite their decreasing power?

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

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

9. How does Bisset explain humorism?

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

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

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

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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