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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. How does Morrison describe early America as distinguishing itself?
(a) Pushing toward a future of freedom.
(b) Pushing toward freedom from Africanism.
(c) Pushing toward better quality literature.
(d) Pushing toward freedom from racial prejudice.

2. What is the second duty of a persona?
(a) Creation.
(b) Belief.
(c) Reification.
(d) Envy.

3. According to Morrison, what is Hemingway's work distant from?
(a) Slaves.
(b) African-Americans.
(c) Blue collar workers.
(d) Benevolence.

4. In Hemingway's work, a person from which country kills Harry?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Ireland.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Cuba.

5. What type of writer is Poe?
(a) American.
(b) Irish.
(c) English.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?

2. Africanism acquiring a metaphysical necessity is not the same as losing its _______?

3. Morrison says that Hemingway's work is more artless and unselfconscious than which writer?

4. In which novel does Morrison discuss a character named Catherine?

5. In Hemingway's novel, how does the female character see the male's brutality and power?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Morrison's deliberation entirely about?

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

4. Describe the quote Morrison uses from James Snead's book on Faulkner?

5. How does Hemingway make the serviceability of the Africanist presence more pronounced?

6. Describe one major theme Morrison lists being consistent with American literature.

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

8. What does Morrison hope to avert the critical gaze from and to?

9. According to Morrison, what does American literature represent a commentary of?

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

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