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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. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?
(a) Artists and non-artists.
(b) Males and females.
(c) Blacks and whites.
(d) The faith and the faithless.

2. Who is the author of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) George Bernard Shaw.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Willa Cather.

3. What is the white image related to the erasure of, according to Morrison?
(a) Africanism in literature.
(b) Black figure.
(c) Literary whiteness.
(d) Non-whiteness.

4. Morrison's project is an effort to avert the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial ______?
(a) Subject.
(b) Victim.
(c) Accuser.
(d) Violator.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words best describes Henry Morgan?

2. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?

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

4. What does Morrison describe as being the second feature of a non-American?

5. What type of possibilities does Morrison think slavery enriches in America?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Hemingway's work distant from African Americans?

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

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

6. Describe To Have and Have Not.

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

8. How does Morrison describe the Africanist persona?

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

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

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