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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 does Morrison claim has impoverished literature?
(a) Agendas in criticism.
(b) Anger at Eurocentric culture.
(c) New readers.
(d) Critics of American literature.

2. Where did Cardinal grow up?
(a) United States.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Algeria.
(d) Argentina.

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

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

5. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?
(a) Class and race.
(b) Helplessness.
(c) Complex emotions.
(d) Sexuality and racism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the main theme in Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

3. Who is the author of Three Lives?

4. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?

5. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?

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