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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the opposite of restrained in the dichotomy present in Morrison's book?
(a) Benevolent.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pure.
(d) Wicked.

2. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?
(a) How gender neutral she can be.
(b) How racialized she can be.
(c) How much further she can extend her study of American literature.
(d) How free she can be.

3. What begins to tear at Cardinal's nerves?
(a) Conversation.
(b) Movies.
(c) Music.
(d) Books.

4. In what role does Morrison describe herself as assuming nothing happens?
(a) Reader.
(b) Black woman.
(c) European.
(d) Writer.

5. Who was criticized by a scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

6. What does Morrison say produces work?
(a) Stress.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Relaxation.
(d) Perseverance.

7. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?
(a) Angelou.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Evanovich.

8. What is "the Thing"?
(a) Classic literature.
(b) Cardinal's illness.
(c) Louis Armstrong concert.
(d) Morrison's distaste for Africanist literature.

9. Who is the author of Possession?
(a) Antonia Byatt.
(b) Anthony Beccket.
(c) Ashley Bassat.
(d) Arthur Brown.

10. Which of the following is true about Africanism around the world?
(a) The US is not unique in its construction of Africanism.
(b) African literature is the only type of literature that has not constructed Africanism.
(c) American literature is the only type of literature that features Africanism.
(d) Europe is the only first-world region that does not acknowledge Africanism.

11. What does Morrison argue for extending?
(a) The study of American literature.
(b) The study of racial interactions.
(c) The study of racism.
(d) The study of African literature.

12. Which group, according to Morrison, is more likely to claim that racism is neutral?
(a) Africans.
(b) Americans.
(c) Asians.
(d) Europeans.

13. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?
(a) Americanism.
(b) African-American.
(c) Africanism.
(d) Black literature.

14. What does Morrison wish studies of racism would focus on?
(a) Impact of racism on those who perpetuate it.
(b) Impact of racism on readers and writers.
(c) Impact of racism on children.
(d) Impact of racism on society's foundation.

15. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
(a) Why people read it.
(b) Why it is a failure.
(c) Why it is successful.
(d) Why it was written.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hidden signals does Morrison look for?

2. Where did Cardinal grow up?

3. What two things does Morrison claim not to be extremely distinct for a writer?

4. Who is the author of Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

5. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?

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