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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?
(a) Writers.
(b) Society.
(c) Readers.
(d) The self.

3. How does Morrison feel about the scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?
(a) Accepting.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Distrusting.
(d) Angry.

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

5. Who is the third author Morrison mentions as including black references in his or her work?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Palahniuk.
(c) O'Connor.
(d) Shaw.

6. Why does Morrison claim to struggle with language that evokes hidden signals?
(a) She is a bad writer.
(b) She is a black writer.
(c) She is a female writer.
(d) She is a good writer.

7. Which of the following does Morrison say studies of racism focus on?
(a) Victims.
(b) Abusers.
(c) Activists.
(d) Accusers.

8. What does Morrison teach?
(a) Racial Studies.
(b) Women's studies.
(c) American Literature.
(d) English composition.

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

10. Who was Cardinal warned against having relationships with?
(a) Arab people.
(b) White people.
(c) Jewish people.
(d) Black people.

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

12. Who does the main female character in Sapphira and the Slave Girl demand power over?
(a) Children.
(b) Her slaves.
(c) Men.
(d) Society.

13. Morrison says that what item reveals itself differently to each writer?
(a) Book.
(b) Paper.
(c) Pen.
(d) Notebook.

14. What does Morrison believe we need to learn about to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?
(a) How Africanism functions.
(b) Who invented Africanism.
(c) Why we read American fiction.
(d) Why we rely on Africanism in literature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sapphira jealous of?

2. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?

3. Which of the following words refers to denotative and connotative blackness that the African people have come to signify?

4. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?

5. What does Morrison claim has impoverished literature?

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