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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 type of writer is Poe?
(a) Irish.
(b) English.
(c) American.
(d) German.

2. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?
(a) A gargoyle.
(b) A clock.
(c) A water dish for his cat.
(d) A framed photo of Louis Armstrong.

3. What country is William Dunbar from?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Scotland.
(d) China.

4. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?
(a) How domination spreads.
(b) How domination becomes possible.
(c) Where domination comes from.
(d) Who encourages domination.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison claim is not representative of a black woman for her?

2. Possessed, where does Cardinal run?

3. What is the first role that the Africanist character serves as?

4. Who is the author of Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

5. Who was criticized by a scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?

(see the answer key)

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