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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the American group that offers itself up as a surrogate represent a meditation on?
(a) Racial tension.
(b) Human freedom.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Happiness.

2. Which of the following words best describes Henry Morgan?
(a) Angry.
(b) Moral.
(c) Wicked.
(d) Insane.

3. Morrison's project is an effort to avert the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial ______?
(a) Victim.
(b) Subject.
(c) Violator.
(d) Accuser.

4. Which flight is described by Morrison as an escape?
(a) Happiness to unruliness.
(b) War to peace.
(c) Anger to acceptance.
(d) Old World to New World.

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

6. What country is William Dunbar from?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) China.

7. According to Morrison, what do writers seem to think whiteness is?
(a) Loud.
(b) Mute.
(c) Intolerant.
(d) Benevolent.

8. Who is the author of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) Willa Cather.

9. When Catherine colors her hair, how does her husband respond?
(a) He is excited.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He does not notice.
(d) He is ambivalent.

10. According to Morrison, what is Hemingway's work distant from?
(a) Slaves.
(b) African-Americans.
(c) Blue collar workers.
(d) Benevolence.

11. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?
(a) American.
(b) Light.
(c) Dark.
(d) Fearful.

12. What type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?
(a) Asian.
(b) European.
(c) African.
(d) South American.

13. In Hemingway's work, a person from which country kills Harry?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Mexico.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Ireland.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hemingway's work, the women with which characteristics are the most desirable?

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

3. In one of Hemingway's works, which character provides a juxtaposition to Catherine?

4. Who wrote a book about Faulkner?

5. What position does Morrison take completely?

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