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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?
(a) Helplessness.
(b) Sexuality and racism.
(c) Complex emotions.
(d) Class and race.

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

6. What does Morrison describe as being the second feature of a non-American?
(a) Financial status.
(b) Skills.
(c) Health.
(d) Social status.

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

8. In reference to the opening passage, how does Morrison claim race is used?
(a) Metaphorically.
(b) Subtley.
(c) Literally.
(d) Strictly.

9. In the Henry Morgan book, where does a shooting occur?
(a) Outside a hospital.
(b) In a park.
(c) Outside a cafe.
(d) In a school.

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

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

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

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

14. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, how many days are described?
(a) 2.
(b) 30.
(c) 365.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?

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

5. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?

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