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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the Henry Morgan book, who is portrayed as being the most violent?
2. In which novel does Morrison discuss a character named Catherine?
3. Which work features Harry Morgan?
4. Which of the following is not a linguistic strategy employed in fiction to engage the serious consequences of blacks as an economy of stereotype as listed by Morrison?
5. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What characteristics does Morrison describe as being the distinguishing features of non-Americans?
2. What role do black men play in Hemingway's works?
3. Why does Morrison deem Poe the most important early American writer?
4. From Morrison's point of view, how do writers see whiteness?
5. What is the significance of nurses in Hemingway's work?
6. What does Morrison hope to avert the critical gaze from and to?
7. Describe one major theme Morrison lists being consistent with American literature.
8. According to Morrison, what does Poe's work show?
9. How is Hemingway's work distant from African Americans?
10. Why does Morrison suggest that Dunbar's finer sensibilities have been dulled?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Morrison states that she struggles with language that evokes hidden signals of racial superiority and that her vulnerability lies in romanticizing blackness. What does this mean? What does this tell the reader about Morrison and about literature? Give an example of hidden signals of racial superiority and romanticizing a race.
Essay Topic 2
How does learning about how Africanism functions in the literary imagination make it possible to discover the nature and cause of literary whiteness?
Essay Topic 3
How does Hemingway portray race in his work? How is Hemingway distant from African-Americans in his work? What does this tell the reader? How does Hemingway show the difference between males and females? How does he relate this to race?
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