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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. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Anger.
(c) Racial pressures.
(d) Tolerance.

2. Who is the author of What Maisie Knew?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Willa Cather.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Henry James.

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

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

5. In what year does William Dunbar write about suppression?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1755.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1768.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Morrison consider to be the most important early American writer in regard to the concept of Africanism in literature?

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

3. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?

4. How many lectures is Playing in the Dark based on?

5. In what role does Morrison describe herself as assuming nothing happens?

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