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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 first role that the Africanist character serves as?
(a) Surrogate.
(b) A way to evoke emotion.
(c) Intentional racist target.
(d) Benevolent figure.

2. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?
(a) Artist.
(b) Black woman.
(c) Reader.
(d) Writer.

3. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, how many days are described?
(a) 365.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 30.

4. Which of the following does Morrison claim literature concerns?
(a) Faith interacting with the world.
(b) Imagination interacting with the world.
(c) Creativity interacting with the world.
(d) Indulgence interacting with the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of Hemingway's works, which character provides a juxtaposition to Catherine?

2. How does Morrison describe early America as distinguishing itself?

3. Morrison's project is an effort to avert the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial ______?

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

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

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