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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?
(a) Bailyn.
(b) Cath.
(c) Dunbar.
(d) Poe.

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

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

7. What is the name of Catherine's husband?
(a) David.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Eric.
(d) Edward.

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

9. What are the two characters who discuss sex in Hemingway's work?
(a) Harold and Manny.
(b) Harry and Marie.
(c) Morgan and Henrietta.
(d) Hanna and Marshall.

10. The presence of blacks is inherent and inextricable from the definition of which word?
(a) Black.
(b) Americanness.
(c) Africanist.
(d) Literature.

11. Which of the following is not a linguistic strategy employed in fiction to engage the serious consequences of blacks as an economy of stereotype as listed by Morrison?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Fetishization.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metonymy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?

2. Who does Morrison consider to be the most important early American writer in regard to the concept of Africanism in literature?

3. What has the image of the bound and suppressed darkness become objectified as?

4. In reference to the opening passage, how does Morrison claim race is used?

5. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?

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