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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 flight is described by Morrison as an escape?
(a) Happiness to unruliness.
(b) Anger to acceptance.
(c) Old World to New World.
(d) War to peace.

2. What does Morrison describe as being the second feature of a non-American?
(a) Social status.
(b) Health.
(c) Skills.
(d) Financial status.

3. Who gave the lectures that Morrison bases Playing in the Dark on?
(a) Willard Mast.
(b) Westley Morford.
(c) William Massey.
(d) Wexley Moth.

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

5. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?
(a) Artist.
(b) Reader.
(c) Black woman.
(d) Writer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Morrison, what does Willa Cather not allow readers to ignore?

4. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?

5. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?

(see the answer key)

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