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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. In one of Hemingway's works, what does the character named Catherine aspire to be for her husband?
(a) Little girl.
(b) Good lover.
(c) Housewife.
(d) African girl.

2. What does Cardinal's first therapy realization concern?
(a) Dichotomy thrust upon people of color.
(b) Sexuality of different races.
(c) Music started her fall to madness.
(d) Prepubescent sensuality.

3. What does Morrison wish studies of racism would focus on?
(a) Impact of racism on society's foundation.
(b) Impact of racism on readers and writers.
(c) Impact of racism on those who perpetuate it.
(d) Impact of racism on children.

4. 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.

5. Which of the following is the first duty of a persona?
(a) Exorcism.
(b) Blackness.
(c) Dutifulness.
(d) Existence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?

2. In the Henry Morgan book, where does a shooting occur?

3. What are Dunbar's finer sensibilities dulled by?

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

5. Until recently, what did Morrison assume about all readers of American fiction?

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