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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. What is the white image related to the erasure of, according to Morrison?
(a) Non-whiteness.
(b) Africanism in literature.
(c) Literary whiteness.
(d) Black figure.

2. What type of writer is Poe?
(a) English.
(b) American.
(c) German.
(d) Irish.

3. What group of America's population offers itself up as a surrogate, in Morrison's point of view?
(a) Whites.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Writers.

4. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?
(a) Anger.
(b) Tolerance.
(c) Racial pressures.
(d) Oppression.

5. According to Morrison, what represents a commentary on the transformations of racial difference?
(a) American literature.
(b) African literature.
(c) European literature.
(d) Benvolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Morrison, what do writers seem to think whiteness is?

2. In Voyagers of the West, what are the settlers becoming?

3. According to Dunbar, from what do his slaves want freedom from?

4. In Hemingway's novel, how does the female character see the male's brutality and power?

5. Why does Morrison state that slavery enriches the country's possibilities?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Morrison, when is mankind bereft?

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

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

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. How does William Dunbar justify giving his slaves lashes?

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

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