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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Romancing the Shadow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What persuaded Morrison to read The Words to Say It?
(a) The author.
(b) The title.
(c) The cover.
(d) A synopsis.

2. What put the author of The Words to Say It into a gripped panic?
(a) Louis Armstrong concert.
(b) Reading a book by Morrison.
(c) Studying Africanist literature.
(d) Reading Hemingway.

3. Who is the author of What Maisie Knew?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Willa Cather.

4. What is Morrison interested in determining about domination?
(a) How domination becomes possible.
(b) Where domination comes from.
(c) Who encourages domination.
(d) How domination spreads.

5. Which of the following elements of racism does Morrison say studies of racism focus on?
(a) Why literature is racist.
(b) Origin of racism.
(c) Consequences of racism.
(d) People who have failed as a result of racism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following words does Morrison use to describe writers?

3. What do some suggest is a way to evade history?

4. What does Morrison determine is the cause of Nancy's mother's lack of maternal love?

5. Who does Sapphira plot to rape her slave?

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