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

2. What is Dunbar able to justify?
(a) Killing a man.
(b) Starving his slaves.
(c) Leaving Europe.
(d) Giving his slaves lashes.

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

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

5. What does Morrison not mention the world as being?
(a) Genderized.
(b) Sexualized.
(c) Racialized.
(d) Liberalized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Possession?

2. What is American literature described as being in Playing in the Dark?

3. Where does William Dunbar claim land?

4. What is Morrison skeptical about?

5. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?

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