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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 Cardinal's first therapy realization concern?
(a) Music started her fall to madness.
(b) Sexuality of different races.
(c) Dichotomy thrust upon people of color.
(d) Prepubescent sensuality.

2. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, how many days are described?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 365.
(d) 30.

3. How does Morrison feel about the scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Distrusting.
(b) Angry.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Accepting.

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

5. What does Morrison propose to investigate?
(a) Racial exclusivity.
(b) Racial bias.
(c) Racial superiority.
(d) Racial hierarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers struggle to interpret?

2. What does Morrison see that the subject of the dream is?

3. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?

4. What type of writer is Poe?

5. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?

(see the answer key)

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