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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 Dunbar able to justify?
(a) Starving his slaves.
(b) Giving his slaves lashes.
(c) Killing a man.
(d) Leaving Europe.

2. What is the first role that the Africanist character serves as?
(a) Benevolent figure.
(b) Intentional racist target.
(c) A way to evoke emotion.
(d) Surrogate.

3. Which group, according to Morrison, is more likely to claim that racism is neutral?
(a) Europeans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Asians.
(d) Africans.

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

5. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?
(a) Poe.
(b) Cath.
(c) Dunbar.
(d) Bailyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison determine is the cause of Nancy's mother's lack of maternal love?

2. Which of the following best describes Marie Cardinal?

3. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?

4. What are Dunbar's finer sensibilities dulled by?

5. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?

(see the answer key)

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