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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. How does Morrison describe the act of ignoring race?
(a) Literary whiteness.
(b) Racism.
(c) Africanism.
(d) Literature.
2. What is the white image related to the erasure of, according to Morrison?
(a) Non-whiteness.
(b) Africanism in literature.
(c) Black figure.
(d) Literary whiteness.
3. In the Henry Morgan book, who is portrayed as being the most violent?
(a) Henry Morgan.
(b) Henry's father.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Whites.
4. In the book about Faulkner, what "show their flaws best in written form"?
(a) Racial divisions.
(b) Racial tension.
(c) Pressure.
(d) Benevolence.
5. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Color.
(c) Education.
(d) Personality.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which group does Morrison say responds to culture the most?
2. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?
3. What does the American group that offers itself up as a surrogate represent a meditation on?
4. In Hemingway's work, the women with which characteristics are the most desirable?
5. In Hemingway's work, what do black nurse-men often alter?
Short Essay Questions
1. The common claim that white America has considered many things without reference to the black population includes what concepts?
2. What is the significance of nurses in Hemingway's work?
3. What characteristics does Morrison describe as being the distinguishing features of non-Americans?
4. Why does Morrison deem Poe the most important early American writer?
5. Why do Africanist characters serve as surrogates and enablers?
6. According to Morrison, what does Poe's work show?
7. According to Morrison, what does American literature represent a commentary of?
8. How does Morrison describe the Africanist persona?
9. Describe the quote Morrison uses from James Snead's book on Faulkner?
10. Describe To Have and Have Not.
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