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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Hemingway's work, what are black men most similar to?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Nurses.
(c) Children.
(d) Fathers.

2. What is the third duty of a persona?
(a) Mirroring.
(b) Exemplifying.
(c) Fulfilling.
(d) Existing.

3. What is the second meditation that Morrison suggests an American group offers itself up as a surrogate for?
(a) History.
(b) Terror.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Patience.

4. What type of possibilities does Morrison think slavery enriches in America?
(a) Historical.
(b) Creative.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Romantic.

5. In one of Hemingway's works, what does the character named Catherine aspire to be for her husband?
(a) Housewife.
(b) Good lover.
(c) African girl.
(d) Little girl.

6. In what year does William Dunbar write about suppression?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1755.
(c) 1768.
(d) 1789.

7. In the Henry Morgan book, who is portrayed as being the most violent?
(a) Henry's father.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Henry Morgan.
(d) Whites.

8. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?
(a) Class and race.
(b) Complex emotions.
(c) Sexuality and racism.
(d) Helplessness.

9. Which flight is described by Morrison as an escape?
(a) Anger to acceptance.
(b) Happiness to unruliness.
(c) Old World to New World.
(d) War to peace.

10. Which of the following does Morrison claim literature concerns?
(a) Creativity interacting with the world.
(b) Faith interacting with the world.
(c) Indulgence interacting with the world.
(d) Imagination interacting with the world.

11. What is Dunbar able to justify?
(a) Giving his slaves lashes.
(b) Leaving Europe.
(c) Killing a man.
(d) Starving his slaves.

12. When Catherine colors her hair, how does her husband respond?
(a) He is ambivalent.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He does not notice.
(d) He is excited.

13. Which group does Morrison say responds to culture the most?
(a) Painters.
(b) Children.
(c) Readers.
(d) Writers.

14. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?
(a) Literate.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Pale.
(d) Tan.

15. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?
(a) Poe.
(b) Bailyn.
(c) Cath.
(d) Dunbar.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, what represents a commentary on the transformations of racial difference?

2. What type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?

3. What are the two characters who discuss sex in Hemingway's work?

4. What position does Morrison take completely?

5. Morrison's investigation is specifically listed as not being one of which of the following?

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