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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 is the race of the character in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) Black.
(b) Asian.
(c) White.
(d) Hispanic.

2. In what role does Morrison describe herself as assuming nothing happens?
(a) Writer.
(b) European.
(c) Reader.
(d) Black woman.

3. What does Morrison wonder most about Cardinal?
(a) When she knew she was in trouble.
(b) When she felt she had to panic.
(c) Why she wrote a book.
(d) Why she went to a Louis Armstrong concert.

4. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
(a) Why it is successful.
(b) Why it was written.
(c) Why it is a failure.
(d) Why people read it.

5. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?
(a) Fearful.
(b) American.
(c) Dark.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Possessed, where does Cardinal run?

3. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?

4. What is the second duty of a persona?

5. Which group, according to Morrison, is more likely to claim that racism is neutral?

(see the answer key)

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