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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Disturbing Nurses and the Kindness of Sharks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?
(a) Cath.
(b) Bailyn.
(c) Poe.
(d) Dunbar.

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

3. What has the image of the bound and suppressed darkness become objectified as?
(a) White persona.
(b) Benevolent person.
(c) Black persona.
(d) Africanist persona.

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

5. Morrison says that Hemingway's work is more artless and unselfconscious than which writer?
(a) Poe.
(b) James.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Cath.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of Hemingway's works, which character provides a juxtaposition to Catherine?

2. In Hemingway's work, what are black men most similar to?

3. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?

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

5. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?

(see the answer key)

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