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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. What begins to tear at Cardinal's nerves?
(a) Movies.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Music.
(d) Books.
2. Who is the author of Possession?
(a) Antonia Byatt.
(b) Ashley Bassat.
(c) Anthony Beccket.
(d) Arthur Brown.
3. What does Morrison claim that critics do not say about Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
(a) Why people read it.
(b) Why it is a failure.
(c) Why it is successful.
(d) Why it was written.
4. What persuaded Morrison to read The Words to Say It?
(a) A synopsis.
(b) The cover.
(c) The title.
(d) The author.
5. What is an example of the concept of black figuration?
(a) Africanism in American literature.
(b) Morrison's reading style.
(c) The manifestion of Cardinal's illness.
(d) Slavery in American history.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which word best describes Sapphira?
2. What does Morrison believe we need to learn about to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?
3. Which author does Morrison mention first as containing black references?
4. What does Morrison start a file to document?
5. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Byatt quote from Possession about?
2. What is the most significant question that stems from Morrison reading Cardinal's book?
3. Why doesn't Sapphira and the Slave Girl allow readers to ignore race?
4. Describe the character Sapphira and her motives.
5. What matters seem to challenge most as a writer and what effect does this have on her?
6. What does Toni Morrison think about Marie Cardinal's book?
7. What implication stems from the fact that imagination produces work?
8. What can happen if we learn about the way Africanism functions in the literary imagination?
9. According to Morrison, what does a black woman represent to literature but not to herself?
10. What does it mean when Morrison says that her vulnerability lies in romanticizing blackness?
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