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

2. What accusations does Morrison accept the risk of when discussing studies of racism?
(a) She has never studied racism.
(b) She has never studied literature.
(c) She is racist.
(d) She has vested interest in the topic.

3. Who is the author of the quote from Preludes IV?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

4. What rises up when the character dies in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) White shadows.
(b) Black smoke.
(c) Gray fog.
(d) Glitter.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Morrison describe Sapphira and the Slave Girl as being an example of?

3. What country is William Dunbar from?

4. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?

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

(see the answer key)

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