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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 reference to the opening passage, how does Morrison claim race is used?
(a) Strictly.
(b) Metaphorically.
(c) Subtley.
(d) Literally.

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

3. What are Dunbar's finer sensibilities dulled by?
(a) Frontier life.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) Literary whiteness.
(d) European life.

4. Africanism acquiring a metaphysical necessity is not the same as losing its _______?
(a) Ideological utility.
(b) Literary blackness.
(c) Independence.
(d) Metaphorical necessity.

5. In Harry Morgan's crew, what is the name of the black man?
(a) Wesley.
(b) Weston.
(c) Walter.
(d) Weaton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hemingway's work, what are black men most similar to?

2. Which group does Morrison say responds to culture the most?

3. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, how many days are described?

4. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?

5. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?

Short Essay Questions

1. The common claim that white America has considered many things without reference to the black population includes what concepts?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Morrison's deliberation entirely about?

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

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

10. According to Morrison, what does Poe's work show?

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