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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. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Evanovich.
(c) Angelou.
(d) Hemingway.

2. According to Dunbar, from what do his slaves want freedom from?
(a) The state.
(b) His plantation.
(c) The country.
(d) Themselves.

3. Who was criticized by a scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

4. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?
(a) How gender neutral she can be.
(b) How much further she can extend her study of American literature.
(c) How free she can be.
(d) How racialized she can be.

5. For Morrison, when a writer is challenged and activities are more difficult, what else do they become?
(a) Less valuable.
(b) More rewarding.
(c) More exciting.
(d) Less significant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?

2. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?

3. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?

4. How many years back did the presence of African-Americans in the US begin?

5. What does Morrison teach?

(see the answer key)

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