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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Disturbing Nurses and the Kindness of Sharks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Hemingway's works, what do black nurse-men often articulate?
(a) Narrator's exact emotions.
(b) Narrator's doom.
(c) Narrator's love affairs.
(d) Narrator's quality.

2. In Harry Morgan's crew, what is the name of the black man?
(a) Wesley.
(b) Weston.
(c) Walter.
(d) Weaton.

3. According to Morrison, what do readers and writers fight for?
(a) Determination and fear.
(b) Individuality and duality.
(c) Defintion and defiance.
(d) Meaning and responsibility.

4. The serviceability of the Africanist presence is more pronounced when Hemingway describes the relationships between which groups?
(a) Males and females.
(b) The faith and the faithless.
(c) Artists and non-artists.
(d) Blacks and whites.

5. What are the two characters who discuss sex in Hemingway's work?
(a) Harry and Marie.
(b) Harold and Manny.
(c) Hanna and Marshall.
(d) Morgan and Henrietta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of possibilities does Morrison think slavery enriches in America?

2. How many pages into The Words to Say It does "the thing" happen?

3. What does America's flight from one thing to another identify as an escape from?

4. What notion must a writer be aware of when reading and writing?

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

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