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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. At which of the following does Ailey pursue a graduate degree?

2. Which of the following does Lydia note preferring?

3. Which of the following describes the voice of Lydia’s uncle, Huck?

4. Which of the following does Rebecca note is her research topic?

5. In what year does Samuel win a land lottery in Georgia?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Coco become aware of Ailey’s duplicity?

2. How does Claudius earn the money he uses to secure his freedom?

3. Why does Aggie cut Eliza Two’s face?

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

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

6. Why does Whitcomb chide Ailey for her use of “we” in class?

7. How does Whitcomb explain his pressing Ailey harder than other students?

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

9. Why do the women enslaved at Wood Place hesitate to tend to Nick?

10. What does Ailey note having taken for granted in Chicasetta and at Routledge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “For the original transgression of this land was not slavery. It was greed, and it could not be contained” (4). To what extent does the text bear out the comment, and how does it do so?

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

To what genre other than literary fiction might The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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