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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. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?
(a) Her nephew.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her brother.

2. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?
(a) African-American.
(b) Americanism.
(c) Black literature.
(d) Africanism.

3. What is the opposite of restrained in the dichotomy present in Morrison's book?
(a) Pure.
(b) Wicked.
(c) Benevolent.
(d) Anger.

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

5. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?
(a) Studying Africanist literature.
(b) Reading a book by Morrison.
(c) Reading Hemingway.
(d) Louis Armstrong concert.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the attack on Algeria, what does Cardinal see?

3. Who is the author of Three Lives?

4. What accusations does Morrison accept the risk of when discussing studies of racism?

5. Which group, according to Morrison, is more likely to claim that racism is neutral?

(see the answer key)

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