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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 describe Sapphira and the Slave Girl as being an example of?
(a) Immediate Africanist presence.
(b) Willful critical blindness.
(c) Fulfilling language and lackluster art.
(d) Urgency in American literature.

2. Where does Morrison teach?
(a) Harvard.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Brown.
(d) Princeton.

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

4. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Education.
(c) Personality.
(d) Color.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second meditation that Morrison suggests an American group offers itself up as a surrogate for?

2. When did Morrison read The Words to Say It?

3. Who is the second author Morrison mentions as including black references in his or her work?

4. According to Morrison, what demands are put on black people?

5. What group does Dunbar write about the suppression of?

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