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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 The Words to Say It document about the author?
(a) The author's relationship.
(b) The author's feelings about Africanist literature.
(c) The author's therapy and healing.
(d) The author's literary criticism of literature.

2. Who does Morrison consider to be the most important early American writer in regard to the concept of Africanism in literature?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Cath.
(c) Poe.
(d) James.

3. What analogy does Morrison use to describe what studies of racism should focus on?
(a) Study the students as well as the scholars.
(b) Study the masters as well as the slaves.
(c) Study the women as well as the men.
(d) Study the children as well as the parents.

4. How many lectures is Playing in the Dark based on?
(a) 1.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

2. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?

3. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?

4. How does Morrison describe the act of ignoring race?

5. When did Morrison read The Words to Say It?

(see the answer key)

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