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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 and Have Not.
(d) To Have Faith in the Faithless.

2. 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.

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

4. What rises up when the character dies in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?
(a) White shadows.
(b) Glitter.
(c) Black smoke.
(d) Gray fog.

5. In Hemingway's work, what do black nurse-men often alter?
(a) The narrator's romantic relationships.
(b) The narrator's self-image.
(c) The narrator's hatred for black people.
(d) The narrator's faith.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?

3. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?

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

5. In American literature, what does Morrison believe artists transfer internal conflicts to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe To Have and Have Not.

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

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

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

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

7. How does Huckleberry Finn critique class and race?

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

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

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

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