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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. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?
(a) Arab people.
(b) White people.
(c) Black people.
(d) Jewish people.

2. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?
(a) Writers.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Whites.
(d) Slaves.

3. What is the white image related to the erasure of, according to Morrison?
(a) Black figure.
(b) Africanism in literature.
(c) Literary whiteness.
(d) Non-whiteness.

4. In Hemingway's work, a person from which country kills Harry?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Mexico.
(d) South Africa.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is "the Thing"?

4. A common claim is that white America has considered morality and other virtues without reference to which group?

5. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?

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