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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. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Pale.
(c) Tan.
(d) Literate.

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

3. In the book featuring Henry Morgan, what is stressed?
(a) Violence.
(b) Romance.
(c) Anger.
(d) History.

4. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, how many days are described?
(a) 30.
(b) 2.
(c) 365.
(d) 7.

5. A common claim is that white America has considered morality and other virtues without reference to which group?
(a) Foreign population.
(b) Poor population.
(c) Black population.
(d) Artist population.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, what highlights freedom?

2. What is the third duty of a persona?

3. What is the first role that the Africanist character serves as?

4. What are the two characters who discuss sex in Hemingway's work?

5. What do some suggest is a way to evade history?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Morrison describe the Africanist persona?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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