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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Hemingway's work, the women with which characteristics are the most desirable?
(a) Warrior-like.
(b) Nurse-like.
(c) Teacher-like.
(d) Mother-like.

2. Morrison says that Hemingway's work is more artless and unselfconscious than which writer?
(a) James.
(b) Cath.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Poe.

3. Who wrote the quote from Penelogical Studies: Southern Exposure?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Robert Penn Warren.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Tori Morrison.

4. What rises up when the character dies in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) Gray fog.
(b) White shadows.
(c) Glitter.
(d) Black smoke.

5. In what year does William Dunbar write about suppression?
(a) 1755.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1776.

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

7. What group does Dunbar write about the suppression of?
(a) Africans.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Americans.
(d) Slaves.

8. In American literature, what does Morrison believe artists transfer internal conflicts to?
(a) Blank darkness.
(b) Pride.
(c) Literary strengths.
(d) Literary blackness.

9. What does a character in Hemingway's work refer to having sex with black women as?
(a) Angry lions.
(b) Mother hens.
(c) House cats.
(d) Nurse sharks.

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

11. Where does William Dunbar claim land?
(a) Florida.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Mississippi.

12. How does Morrison describe the act of ignoring race?
(a) Literary whiteness.
(b) Literature.
(c) Africanism.
(d) Racism.

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

14. In the book about Faulkner, what "show their flaws best in written form"?
(a) Benevolence.
(b) Racial divisions.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Racial tension.

15. Which group does Morrison say responds to culture the most?
(a) Painters.
(b) Readers.
(c) Writers.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, whose work is free of agenda and sensitivity?

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

3. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?

4. Africanism acquiring a metaphysical necessity is not the same as losing its _______?

5. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?

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