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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 book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?
(a) Possession.
(b) Playing in the Dark.
(c) The Words to Say It.
(d) Preludes IV.

2. What are Dunbar's finer sensibilities dulled by?
(a) European life.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) Frontier life.
(d) Literary whiteness.

3. What does Morrison see that the subject of the dream is?
(a) The symbolism of the dream.
(b) The dream itself.
(c) The dreamer.
(d) The action in the dream.

4. Who does Morrison consider to be the most important early American writer in regard to the concept of Africanism in literature?
(a) Cath.
(b) Dickinson.
(c) James.
(d) Poe.

5. What is Morrison skeptical about?
(a) The author of The Words to Say It is a real person.
(b) The author of The Words to Say It was actually healed.
(c) The Words to Say It is an autobiography.
(d) The Words to Say It is a work of fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?

2. What does the American group that offers itself up as a surrogate represent a meditation on?

3. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?

4. Who is the author of What Maisie Knew?

5. What is "the Thing"?

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