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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Dunbar, from what do his slaves want freedom from?
(a) The state.
(b) His plantation.
(c) The country.
(d) Themselves.

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

5. 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) Fetishization.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Alliteration.

6. In one of Hemingway's works, what does the character named Catherine aspire to be for her husband?
(a) African girl.
(b) Housewife.
(c) Good lover.
(d) Little girl.

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

8. What type of writer is Poe?
(a) English.
(b) Irish.
(c) German.
(d) American.

9. According to Morrison, what highlights freedom?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Freedom of the press.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) Literature.

10. What is Dunbar able to justify?
(a) Leaving Europe.
(b) Killing a man.
(c) Giving his slaves lashes.
(d) Starving his slaves.

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

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

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

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

15. What is the name of the author Morrison opens up with in Chapter 3?
(a) Cath.
(b) Poe.
(c) Williams.
(d) James.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, what do writers seem to think whiteness is?

2. What does a character in Hemingway's work refer to having sex with black women as?

3. The presence of blacks is inherent and inextricable from the definition of which word?

4. Which flight is described by Morrison as an escape?

5. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, how many days are described?

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