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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 of the following elements of racism does Morrison say studies of racism focus on?
(a) People who have failed as a result of racism.
(b) Origin of racism.
(c) Consequences of racism.
(d) Why literature is racist.

2. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?
(a) African-American.
(b) Black literature.
(c) Africanism.
(d) Americanism.

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

4. What hidden signals does Morrison look for?
(a) Racial superiority.
(b) Genderization.
(c) Africanization.
(d) An author's true feelings about people.

5. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?
(a) Louis Armstrong concert.
(b) Reading a book by Morrison.
(c) Studying Africanist literature.
(d) Reading Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?

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

5. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?

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