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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) Males and females.
(b) Blacks and whites.
(c) The faith and the faithless.
(d) Artists and non-artists.

2. What is the third duty of a persona?
(a) Exemplifying.
(b) Fulfilling.
(c) Mirroring.
(d) Existing.

3. How does Morrison describe early America as distinguishing itself?
(a) Pushing toward freedom from racial prejudice.
(b) Pushing toward freedom from Africanism.
(c) Pushing toward a future of freedom.
(d) Pushing toward better quality literature.

4. In the novel featuring Catherine, what is the social taboo of blackness associated with?
(a) Benevolence.
(b) Wickedness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Strangeness.

5. What does Morrison describe as being the first feature of a non-American?
(a) Slave status.
(b) Hair color.
(c) Existence.
(d) Personality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which work features Harry Morgan?

3. According to Morrison, what is Hemingway's work distant from?

4. Who wrote a book about Faulkner?

5. What does the American group that offers itself up as a surrogate represent a meditation on?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Morrison's deliberation entirely about?

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

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

9. How does Huckleberry Finn critique class and race?

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

(see the answer keys)

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