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

2. What does Morrison start a file to document?
(a) Instances of black people igniting moments of discovery in literature.
(b) Instances of Africanist literature that do not acknowledge racial superiority.
(c) Instances of white people causing disturbances in Africanist literature.
(d) Instances of black people being impressed by white people.

3. When Catherine colors her hair, how does her husband respond?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is excited.
(c) He does not notice.
(d) He is ambivalent.

4. How does Morrison feel about the scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Accepting.
(c) Distrusting.
(d) Angry.

5. In Hemingway's work, what are black men most similar to?
(a) Nurses.
(b) Children.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what role does Morrison describe herself as assuming nothing happens?

2. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?

3. In Hemingway's novel, how does the female character see the male's brutality and power?

4. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?

5. What is the name of the author Morrison opens up with in Chapter 3?

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