Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of What Maisie Knew?
(a) Willa Cather.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Henry James.

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

3. What does Morrison start a file to document?
(a) Instances of Africanist literature that do not acknowledge racial superiority.
(b) Instances of black people being impressed by white people.
(c) Instances of black people igniting moments of discovery in literature.
(d) Instances of white people causing disturbances in Africanist literature.

4. Which of the following does Morrison acknowledge?
(a) That each reader is looking for something different.
(b) That each writer tries to avoid writing about race.
(c) That each reader reads differently.
(d) That each author is biased.

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

6. Who does Morrison attribute as being the most sensitive type of artist?
(a) Reader.
(b) Illustrator.
(c) Painter.
(d) Writer.

7. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers struggle to interpret?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Excitement and happiness.
(c) Imagined worlds.
(d) Character traits like anger.

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

9. Possessed, where does Cardinal run?
(a) Into a theater.
(b) Into the street.
(c) Into a concert hall.
(d) Into the park.

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

11. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?
(a) A framed photo of Louis Armstrong.
(b) A clock.
(c) A gargoyle.
(d) A water dish for his cat.

12. Where were the lectures that Playing in the Dark is based on given?
(a) UCLA.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) University of Washington.

13. Who is the second author Morrison mentions as including black references in his or her work?
(a) Du Maurier.
(b) Proust.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Lawrence.

14. Until recently, what did Morrison assume about all readers of American fiction?
(a) They are women.
(b) They are men.
(c) They are white.
(d) They are raceless.

15. Which type of artist does Morrison describe as being the most anarchic?
(a) Readers.
(b) Photographers.
(c) Painters.
(d) Writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Possession?

2. What is "the Thing"?

3. What does Morrison argue for extending?

4. What is Morrison skeptical about?

5. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?

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