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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 country is William Dunbar from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) China.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Ireland.

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

3. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?
(a) Europe is the only first-world region that does not acknowledge Africanism.
(b) The US is not unique in its construction of Africanism.
(c) American literature is the only type of literature that features Africanism.
(d) African literature is the only type of literature that has not constructed Africanism.

4. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?
(a) Meaning and responsibility.
(b) Determination and fear.
(c) Individuality and duality.
(d) Defintion and defiance.

5. What does Cardinal's first therapy realization concern?
(a) Prepubescent sensuality.
(b) Music started her fall to madness.
(c) Sexuality of different races.
(d) Dichotomy thrust upon people of color.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison claim has impoverished literature?

2. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?

3. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

4. Where does Morrison teach?

5. What does Morrison argue for extending?

(see the answer key)

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