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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 wrote Voyagers of the West?
(a) Poe.
(b) Bailyn.
(c) Dunbar.
(d) Cath.

2. What does Morrison consider the consequences of?
(a) Racial profiling in literature.
(b) Literary feminism.
(c) Exemplary black and white characters.
(d) Literary whiteness and blackness.

3. Which of the following best describes Marie Cardinal?
(a) Sensitive and young.
(b) Stressed and insane.
(c) White and privileged.
(d) Small and crass.

4. What does the American group that offers itself up as a surrogate represent a meditation on?
(a) Pressure.
(b) Racial tension.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Human freedom.

5. Who is the author of the quote from Preludes IV?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) John Steinbeck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two characters who discuss sex in Hemingway's work?

2. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?

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

4. What is the name of Sapphira's slave?

5. Where does William Dunbar claim land?

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