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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. Which of the following words best describes Henry Morgan?
(a) Angry.
(b) Wicked.
(c) Insane.
(d) Moral.

2. What is Dunbar able to justify?
(a) Killing a man.
(b) Leaving Europe.
(c) Starving his slaves.
(d) Giving his slaves lashes.

3. In Hemingway's work, who represents an outlaw of sexuality?
(a) Black women.
(b) Black men.
(c) White women.
(d) White men.

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

5. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?
(a) Polarity of virtue.
(b) Polarity of personality.
(c) Polarity of talent.
(d) Polarity of skin color.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dunbar, from what do his slaves want freedom from?

2. What type of writer is Poe?

3. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?

4. Which of the following does Morrison claim literature concerns?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does early America distinguish itself by pressing toward a future of freedom?

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

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

4. Why does Morrison suggest that Dunbar's finer sensibilities have been dulled?

5. According to Morrison, when is mankind bereft?

6. What role do black men play in Hemingway's works?

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

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

9. According to Morrison, who responds best to culture and why?

10. How does Morrison describe the Africanist persona?

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