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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 wrote Voyagers of the West?
(a) Cath.
(b) Poe.
(c) Dunbar.
(d) Bailyn.
2. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Anger.
(d) Racial pressures.
3. Which of the following is not a linguistic strategy employed in fiction to engage the serious consequences of blacks as an economy of stereotype as listed by Morrison?
(a) Fetishization.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Metonymy.
4. In the Henry Morgan book, where does a shooting occur?
(a) In a school.
(b) Outside a cafe.
(c) In a park.
(d) Outside a hospital.
5. What type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?
(a) African.
(b) South American.
(c) Asian.
(d) European.
Short Answer Questions
1. In American literature, what does Morrison believe artists transfer internal conflicts to?
2. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?
3. According to Morrison, what do writers seem to think whiteness is?
4. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?
5. What group does Dunbar write about the suppression of?
Short Essay Questions
1. From Morrison's point of view, how do writers see whiteness?
2. How does Morrison describe the Africanist persona?
3. What does Morrison hope to avert the critical gaze from and to?
4. Why does Morrison suggest that Dunbar's finer sensibilities have been dulled?
5. Why is the act of ignoring race in literature a racist act?
6. How does William Dunbar justify giving his slaves lashes?
7. How does Hemingway make the serviceability of the Africanist presence more pronounced?
8. According to Morrison, what does Poe's work show?
9. According to Morrison, what does American literature represent a commentary of?
10. What does William Carlos Williams's Adam describe?
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