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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. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?
(a) Contemporary novels.
(b) Jazz music.
(c) Modern music.
(d) Classic literature.

2. According to Morrison, what do writers seem to think whiteness is?
(a) Benevolent.
(b) Loud.
(c) Intolerant.
(d) Mute.

3. In the Henry Morgan book, where does a shooting occur?
(a) In a school.
(b) Outside a hospital.
(c) In a park.
(d) Outside a cafe.

4. What does the American group that offers itself up as a surrogate represent a meditation on?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Racial tension.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Human freedom.

5. In Hemingway's work, the women with which characteristics are the most desirable?
(a) Nurse-like.
(b) Mother-like.
(c) Teacher-like.
(d) Warrior-like.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the third author Morrison mentions as including black references in his or her work?

2. What color does Catherine dye her hair?

3. Who wrote The Words to Say It?

4. What type of writer is Poe?

5. What is Dunbar able to justify?

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