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

2. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers struggle to interpret?
(a) Character traits like anger.
(b) Excitement and happiness.
(c) Imagined worlds.
(d) Dialogue.

3. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?
(a) African literature is the only type of literature that has not constructed Africanism.
(b) American literature is the only type of literature that features Africanism.
(c) Europe is the only first-world region that does not acknowledge Africanism.
(d) The US is not unique in its construction of Africanism.

4. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Personality.
(c) Education.
(d) Color.

5. Where does Morrison teach?
(a) Brown.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?

2. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?

3. What does Morrison start a file to document?

4. In what year does William Dunbar write about suppression?

5. Which of the following words does Morrison use to describe writers?

(see the answer key)

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