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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. In the attack on Algeria, what does Cardinal see?
(a) White slaughter of a black mother.
(b) Vengeful slaughter of an innocent.
(c) White slaughter of a white mother.
(d) White slaughter of an Indian mother.

2. What does Morrison teach?
(a) American Literature.
(b) English composition.
(c) Women's studies.
(d) Racial Studies.

3. According to Morrison, what demands are put on black people?
(a) Hope and loss.
(b) Purity and restraint.
(c) Anger and acceptance.
(d) Persistence and drive.

4. Morrison claims that she does not want to replace what with Afrocentric domination?
(a) American.
(b) White.
(c) Literature.
(d) Eurocentric.

5. Who is the author of the quote from Preludes IV?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) John Steinbeck.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?

4. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?

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

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