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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some suggest is a way to evade history?
(a) Religion.
(b) Romance.
(c) Race.
(d) Nationalism.

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

3. What does a character in Hemingway's work refer to having sex with black women as?
(a) Angry lions.
(b) House cats.
(c) Nurse sharks.
(d) Mother hens.

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

5. What is the name of the book Morrison opens with in Chapter 3?
(a) Adam.
(b) Charles.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) William.

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

7. Which flight is described by Morrison as an escape?
(a) Old World to New World.
(b) Happiness to unruliness.
(c) War to peace.
(d) Anger to acceptance.

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

9. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?
(a) American.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Dark.
(d) Light.

10. What is the first role that the Africanist character serves as?
(a) Intentional racist target.
(b) Surrogate.
(c) Benevolent figure.
(d) A way to evoke emotion.

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

12. Which of the following does Morrison claim literature concerns?
(a) Imagination interacting with the world.
(b) Faith interacting with the world.
(c) Indulgence interacting with the world.
(d) Creativity interacting with the world.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hemingway's work, what do black nurse-men often alter?

2. Where does William Dunbar claim land?

3. What group does Dunbar write about the suppression of?

4. What color does Catherine dye her hair?

5. What rises up when the character dies in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?

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