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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second meditation that Morrison suggests an American group offers itself up as a surrogate for?
(a) Patience.
(b) Virtue.
(c) History.
(d) Terror.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Personality.
(c) Color.
(d) Education.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Which of the following is the first duty of a persona?
(a) Exorcism.
(b) Existence.
(c) Blackness.
(d) Dutifulness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first role that the Africanist character serves as?

2. A common claim is that white America has considered morality and other virtues without reference to which group?

3. When Catherine colors her hair, how does her husband respond?

4. Morrison's project is an effort to avert the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial ______?

5. What country is William Dunbar from?

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