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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. What is Dunbar able to justify?
2. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?
3. What does Morrison describe as the third feature of a non-American?
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. What type of writer is Poe?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Morrison, when is mankind bereft?
2. Why does Morrison deem Poe the most important early American writer?
3. Describe Catherine's desires in The Garden of Eden. What does this point out?
4. What does Morrison hope to avert the critical gaze from and to?
5. What is the significance of nurses in Hemingway's work?
6. How does Huckleberry Finn critique class and race?
7. What does William Carlos Williams's Adam describe?
8. What characteristics does Morrison describe as being the distinguishing features of non-Americans?
9. What is Morrison's deliberation entirely about?
10. Why is the act of ignoring race in literature a racist act?
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
Why is it significant to note that Africanist literature has a presence all over the world and not just in the United States? What are the consequences of this fact? Why is it important for Morrison to note that her goal is not to force a Eurocentric world into becoming an Afrocentric one?
Essay Topic 3
The duties of a persona include exorcism, reification, and mirroring. Identify and describe one example of each term in terms of Africanism presence in literature.
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