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

2. In Hemingway's work, the women with which characteristics are the most desirable?
(a) Mother-like.
(b) Teacher-like.
(c) Warrior-like.
(d) Nurse-like.

3. How does the character discussing sex in Hemingway's novel think of black women?
(a) Less than human.
(b) More like men.
(c) Better than white women.
(d) Equal to white women.

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

5. A common claim is that white America has considered morality and other virtues without reference to which group?
(a) Poor population.
(b) Black population.
(c) Foreign population.
(d) Artist population.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the book Morrison opens with in Chapter 3?

3. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?

4. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?

5. What are Dunbar's finer sensibilities dulled by?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the act of ignoring race in literature a racist act?

2. How does William Dunbar justify giving his slaves lashes?

3. What is Morrison's deliberation entirely about?

4. What does William Carlos Williams's Adam describe?

5. From Morrison's point of view, how do writers see whiteness?

6. Why do Africanist characters serve as surrogates and enablers?

7. What is the significance of nurses in Hemingway's work?

8. Why does Morrison deem Poe the most important early American writer?

9. What does Morrison try to make it clear that she is not doing?

10. According to Morrison, when is mankind bereft?

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