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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 describe Sapphira and the Slave Girl as being an example of?
(a) Immediate Africanist presence.
(b) Fulfilling language and lackluster art.
(c) Urgency in American literature.
(d) Willful critical blindness.

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

3. What is the name of the book Morrison opens with in Chapter 3?
(a) Charles.
(b) William.
(c) Adam.
(d) Benjamin.

4. What country is William Dunbar from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Mexico.
(d) China.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Morrison claim literature concerns?

3. Morrison claims that she does not want to replace what with Afrocentric domination?

4. In the Henry Morgan book, who is portrayed as being the most violent?

5. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?

(see the answer key)

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