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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) Literary whiteness.
(b) Black figure.
(c) Non-whiteness.
(d) Africanism in literature.

2. Which of the following is not a linguistic strategy employed in fiction to engage the serious consequences of blacks as an economy of stereotype as listed by Morrison?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Fetishization.
(d) Allegory.

3. What is Morrison skeptical about?
(a) The Words to Say It is a work of fiction.
(b) The author of The Words to Say It was actually healed.
(c) The Words to Say It is an autobiography.
(d) The author of The Words to Say It is a real person.

4. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Dark.
(c) Light.
(d) American.

5. According to Dunbar, from what do his slaves want freedom from?
(a) Themselves.
(b) The country.
(c) His plantation.
(d) The state.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Morrison acknowledge?

2. When was a criticism written deeming the term "darky" acceptable?

3. In what year does William Dunbar write about suppression?

4. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?

5. What hidden signals does Morrison look for?

(see the answer key)

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