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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. What is the name of Sapphira's slave?
(a) Lola.
(b) Stephanie.
(c) Amy.
(d) Nancy.

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

3. Where does Morrison teach?
(a) Brown.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) UCLA.

4. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?
(a) Males and females.
(b) Blacks and whites.
(c) The faith and the faithless.
(d) Artists and non-artists.

5. What notion must a writer be aware of when reading and writing?
(a) Risk.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Anger.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?

2. Which of the dichotomies is shown in the example of a slave woman being kind to her mistress's children but her own mother is not good to her?

3. How many lectures is Playing in the Dark based on?

4. What is the opposite of restrained in the dichotomy present in Morrison's book?

5. What is the second meditation that Morrison suggests an American group offers itself up as a surrogate for?

(see the answer key)

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