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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?
(a) Complex emotions.
(b) Helplessness.
(c) Class and race.
(d) Sexuality and racism.

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

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

4. What has the image of the bound and suppressed darkness become objectified as?
(a) Benevolent person.
(b) Africanist persona.
(c) White persona.
(d) Black persona.

5. Who wrote a book about Faulkner?
(a) Williams.
(b) Charleston.
(c) Poe.
(d) Snead.

6. What type of writer is Poe?
(a) American.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) Irish.

7. 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) Artist population.
(d) Foreign population.

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

9. Which work features Harry Morgan?
(a) To Feel the World Below.
(b) To Have Faith in the Faithless.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) To Feel Comfortable.

10. What color does Catherine dye her hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Black.

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

12. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?
(a) Narrator's doom.
(b) Narrator's exact emotions.
(c) Narrator's quality.
(d) Narrator's love affairs.

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

14. In Hemingway's work, what are black men most similar to?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Nurses.
(d) Children.

15. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?
(a) Polarity of personality.
(b) Polarity of skin color.
(c) Polarity of talent.
(d) Polarity of virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Morrison take completely?

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

3. How does Morrison describe the act of ignoring race?

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

5. What is the third duty of a persona?

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