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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Romancing the Shadow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Morrison say produces work?
(a) Stress.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Relaxation.
(d) Perseverance.

2. What does Morrison describe Sapphira and the Slave Girl as being an example of?
(a) Willful critical blindness.
(b) Fulfilling language and lackluster art.
(c) Immediate Africanist presence.
(d) Urgency in American literature.

3. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?
(a) Literary feminism.
(b) Exemplary black and white characters.
(c) Literary whiteness and blackness.
(d) Racial profiling in literature.

4. Who gave the lectures that Morrison bases Playing in the Dark on?
(a) William Massey.
(b) Wexley Moth.
(c) Westley Morford.
(d) Willard Mast.

5. Which type of artist does Morrison describe as being the most anarchic?
(a) Photographers.
(b) Readers.
(c) Writers.
(d) Painters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Morrison thank for helping her with the book?

2. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?

3. What is American literature described as being in Playing in the Dark?

4. Which word best describes Sapphira?

5. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?

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