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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A common claim is that white America has considered morality and other virtues without reference to which group?
(a) Poor population.
(b) Black population.
(c) Foreign population.
(d) Artist population.

2. In the novel featuring Catherine, what is the social taboo of blackness associated with?
(a) Benevolence.
(b) Wickedness.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Intelligence.

3. What is the second duty of a persona?
(a) Belief.
(b) Envy.
(c) Reification.
(d) Creation.

4. How does Morrison describe early America as distinguishing itself?
(a) Pushing toward freedom from Africanism.
(b) Pushing toward freedom from racial prejudice.
(c) Pushing toward a future of freedom.
(d) Pushing toward better quality literature.

5. Morrison's investigation is specifically listed as not being one of which of the following?
(a) White and black American literature.
(b) White and black dichotomy.
(c) American and European literature.
(d) Racist and non-racist literature.

6. The presence of blacks is inherent and inextricable from the definition of which word?
(a) Literature.
(b) Africanist.
(c) Black.
(d) Americanness.

7. In one of Hemingway's works, what does the character named Catherine aspire to be for her husband?
(a) African girl.
(b) Housewife.
(c) Little girl.
(d) Good lover.

8. What is the name of Catherine's husband?
(a) Edward.
(b) David.
(c) Eric.
(d) Daniel.

9. According to Morrison, whose work is free of agenda and sensitivity?
(a) James.
(b) Faulkner.
(c) Poe.
(d) Hemingway.

10. What are Dunbar's finer sensibilities dulled by?
(a) Frontier life.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) European life.
(d) Literary whiteness.

11. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?
(a) Males and females.
(b) Blacks and whites.
(c) The faith and the faithless.
(d) Artists and non-artists.

12. What is the third duty of a persona?
(a) Exemplifying.
(b) Existing.
(c) Fulfilling.
(d) Mirroring.

13. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?
(a) Whites.
(b) Writers.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Slaves.

14. In the book featuring Henry Morgan, what is stressed?
(a) History.
(b) Anger.
(c) Violence.
(d) Romance.

15. In the Henry Morgan book, where does a shooting occur?
(a) Outside a hospital.
(b) In a park.
(c) In a school.
(d) Outside a cafe.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, what represents a commentary on the transformations of racial difference?

2. Which of the following words best describes Henry Morgan?

3. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?

4. What type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?

5. What is the race of the character in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?

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