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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?
(a) Anger.
(b) Racial pressures.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Oppression.

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

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

4. What position does Morrison take completely?
(a) She does not take a position.
(b) She is against literary whiteness and blackness.
(c) She dislikes American literature.
(d) She is for literary whiteness and blackness.

5. Where does William Dunbar appear after claiming land?
(a) New York City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Miami.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. What is the white image related to the erasure of, according to Morrison?
(a) Black figure.
(b) Africanism in literature.
(c) Non-whiteness.
(d) Literary whiteness.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the book featuring Henry Morgan, what is stressed?

3. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?

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

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

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