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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 was criticized by a scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

2. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?
(a) Racial profiling in literature.
(b) Literary whiteness and blackness.
(c) Literary feminism.
(d) Exemplary black and white characters.

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

4. What rises up when the character dies in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) White shadows.
(b) Glitter.
(c) Black smoke.
(d) Gray fog.

5. Which group does Morrison say responds to culture the most?
(a) Readers.
(b) Children.
(c) Painters.
(d) Writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What analogy does Morrison use to describe what studies of racism should focus on?

2. Which flight is described by Morrison as an escape?

3. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?

4. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?

5. According to Morrison, whose work is free of agenda and sensitivity?

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