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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 Morrison not mention the world as being?
(a) Sexualized.
(b) Genderized.
(c) Racialized.
(d) Liberalized.

2. What is assumed about literature much of the time, in Morrison's point of view?
(a) American literature is unshaped by slavery.
(b) American literature is unshaped by black presence.
(c) American literature is only read by Americans.
(d) American literature is worthless for black Americans.

3. Which of the following best describes Marie Cardinal?
(a) Sensitive and young.
(b) Small and crass.
(c) White and privileged.
(d) Stressed and insane.

4. What does Morrison start a file to document?
(a) Instances of Africanist literature that do not acknowledge racial superiority.
(b) Instances of black people being impressed by white people.
(c) Instances of white people causing disturbances in Africanist literature.
(d) Instances of black people igniting moments of discovery in literature.

5. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?
(a) Writers.
(b) Society.
(c) The self.
(d) Readers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Dunbar's finer sensibilities dulled by?

2. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?

3. What does The Words to Say It document about the author?

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

5. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?

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