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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. How does Morrison describe early America as distinguishing itself?
(a) Pushing toward a future of freedom.
(b) Pushing toward freedom from Africanism.
(c) Pushing toward freedom from racial prejudice.
(d) Pushing toward better quality literature.

2. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?
(a) Defintion and defiance.
(b) Individuality and duality.
(c) Meaning and responsibility.
(d) Determination and fear.

3. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?
(a) A gargoyle.
(b) A water dish for his cat.
(c) A clock.
(d) A framed photo of Louis Armstrong.

4. According to Morrison, what does Willa Cather not allow readers to ignore?
(a) Race.
(b) Setting.
(c) Class.
(d) Time period.

5. What is the second duty of a persona?
(a) Belief.
(b) Reification.
(c) Creation.
(d) Envy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the quote from Preludes IV?

2. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?

3. Who gave the lectures that Morrison bases Playing in the Dark on?

4. What does Morrison debate the validity of?

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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