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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 type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?

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

3. What has the image of the bound and suppressed darkness become objectified as?

4. In the Henry Morgan book, who is portrayed as being the most violent?

5. In the novel, what does Catherine want to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is the act of ignoring race in literature a racist act?

4. According to Morrison, when is mankind bereft?

5. Describe the quote Morrison uses from James Snead's book on Faulkner?

6. From Morrison's point of view, how do writers see whiteness?

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

8. How does Huckleberry Finn critique class and race?

9. Describe To Have and Have Not.

10. Describe the unmanageable slips throughout Poe's work.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

According to Morrison, what are literary whiteness and literary blackness? What are the consequences of literary whiteness and blackness? How were literary whiteness and blackness created? How does Morrison avoid these two concepts?

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