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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 work features Harry Morgan?
(a) To Feel the World Below.
(b) To Feel Comfortable.
(c) To Have Faith in the Faithless.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

2. What is the name of Catherine's husband?
(a) Edward.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Eric.
(d) David.

3. How does Morrison describe the act of ignoring race?
(a) Literature.
(b) Literary whiteness.
(c) Racism.
(d) Africanism.

4. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Personality.
(c) Color.
(d) Education.

5. Which of the following is the first duty of a persona?
(a) Exorcism.
(b) Existence.
(c) Dutifulness.
(d) Blackness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rises up when the character dies in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?

2. How does the character discussing sex in Hemingway's novel think of black women?

3. Who does Morrison consider to be the most important early American writer in regard to the concept of Africanism in literature?

4. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?

5. Morrison's investigation is specifically listed as not being one of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Morrison's deliberation entirely about?

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

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

4. What characteristics does Morrison describe as being the distinguishing features of non-Americans?

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

6. Describe the unmanageable slips throughout Poe's work.

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

8. Describe Catherine's desires in The Garden of Eden. What does this point out?

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

10. Describe To Have and Have Not.

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