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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 writer is Poe?

2. What is the name of Catherine's husband?

3. In the Henry Morgan book, where does a shooting occur?

4. What does Morrison describe as being the second feature of a non-American?

5. What is the name of the book Morrison opens with in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Morrison try to make it clear that she is not doing?

2. How is Hemingway's work distant from African Americans?

3. How does Hemingway make the serviceability of the Africanist presence more pronounced?

4. What does Morrison hope to avert the critical gaze from and to?

5. Describe To Have and Have Not.

6. Why does Morrison suggest that Dunbar's finer sensibilities have been dulled?

7. Describe Catherine's desires in The Garden of Eden. What does this point out?

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

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

10. What is Morrison's deliberation entirely about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Morrison points out the distinguishing features of non-Americans are slave status, social status, and color. Give three examples of these features in action throughout history.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is the purpose of Morrison writing this book? What message did Morrison want to convey? What type of action did Morrison call for?

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