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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Disturbing Nurses and the Kindness of Sharks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?
(a) Romanticizing blackness.
(b) She is biased.
(c) She is a woman.
(d) Caring for racial superiority.

2. Who wrote a book about Faulkner?
(a) Williams.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Poe.
(d) Snead.

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

4. In the book about Faulkner, what "show their flaws best in written form"?
(a) Racial tension.
(b) Benevolence.
(c) Racial divisions.
(d) Pressure.

5. Who does Morrison attribute as being the most sensitive type of artist?
(a) Writer.
(b) Illustrator.
(c) Painter.
(d) Reader.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Catherine colors her hair, how does her husband respond?

3. How does Morrison describe early America as distinguishing itself?

4. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?

5. Which of the following words does Morrison use to describe writers?

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