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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 Morrison's work require her to consider?
(a) How much further she can extend her study of American literature.
(b) How racialized she can be.
(c) How free she can be.
(d) How gender neutral she can be.

2. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?
(a) Playing in the Dark.
(b) Preludes IV.
(c) The Words to Say It.
(d) Possession.

3. According to Morrison, what highlights freedom?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Literature.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The Constitution.

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

5. Which group does Morrison say responds to culture the most?
(a) Writers.
(b) Readers.
(c) Children.
(d) Painters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?

3. Where does Morrison teach?

4. What type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?

5. What does Morrison describe as being the first feature of a non-American?

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