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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. Which work features Harry Morgan?
(a) To Feel the World Below.
(b) To Feel Comfortable.
(c) To Have Faith in the Faithless.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

2. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?
(a) Iran.
(b) United Kingdom.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Algeria.

3. What does a character in Hemingway's work refer to having sex with black women as?
(a) Mother hens.
(b) House cats.
(c) Nurse sharks.
(d) Angry lions.

4. In one of Hemingway's works, which character provides a juxtaposition to Catherine?
(a) Melissa.
(b) Maxine.
(c) Melanie.
(d) Marita.

5. What does Morrison claim has impoverished literature?
(a) Agendas in criticism.
(b) Anger at Eurocentric culture.
(c) New readers.
(d) Critics of American literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dunbar able to justify?

2. Where does Morrison claim to apply the knowledge in Playing in the Dark?

3. What persuaded Morrison to read The Words to Say It?

4. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?

5. According to Morrison, what represents a commentary on the transformations of racial difference?

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