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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Marie Cardinal?
(a) White and privileged.
(b) Small and crass.
(c) Stressed and insane.
(d) Sensitive and young.

2. What is the name of Sapphira's slave?
(a) Amy.
(b) Lola.
(c) Stephanie.
(d) Nancy.

3. What is American literature described as being in Playing in the Dark?
(a) A treasure trove.
(b) A melting pot.
(c) A bookshelf.
(d) A closet.

4. Who is the author of the quote from Preludes IV?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

5. Where does Morrison teach?
(a) Brown.
(b) Harvard.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?

2. How many pages into The Words to Say It does "the thing" happen?

3. Who does the main female character in Sapphira and the Slave Girl demand power over?

4. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

5. What does Morrison not mention the world as being?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Morrison's statement that the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

2. Describe The Words to Say It and its subject matter.

3. What are Morrison's intentions in studying Africanism?

4. Which authors does Morrison describe as using black references in their work?

5. What risk does Morrison accept in discussing studies of racism?

6. What can happen if we learn about the way Africanism functions in the literary imagination?

7. According to Morrison, what does a black woman represent to literature but not to herself?

8. What is the Byatt quote from Possession about?

9. What are the prevalent themes in Sapphira and the Slave Girl?

10. What implication stems from the fact that imagination produces work?

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