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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. Who is the author of What Maisie Knew?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Willa Cather.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

2. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her nephew.

3. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?
(a) Algeria.
(b) United Kingdom.
(c) Iran.
(d) Mexico.

4. What does Morrison claim is not representative of a black woman for her?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Love.
(c) Anarchy.
(d) Dread.

5. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?
(a) Artist.
(b) Writer.
(c) Black woman.
(d) Reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Possession?

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

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

4. Possessed, where does Cardinal run?

5. In Morrison's point of view, what does the fabrication of an Africanist presence a reflexive mediation on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Until recently, what did Morrison assume about all readers of American fiction?

2. What does Toni Morrison think about Marie Cardinal's book?

3. What matters seem to challenge most as a writer and what effect does this have on her?

4. What type of language does Morrison struggle with?

5. Describe the character Sapphira and her motives.

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

7. Who does Morrison blame for literary whiteness and blackness?

8. What does Morrison say Sapphira and the Slave Girl is an example of?

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

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

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