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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. Where did Cardinal grow up?
(a) Argentina.
(b) United States.
(c) Algeria.
(d) Mexico.

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

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

4. What analogy does Morrison use to describe what studies of racism should focus on?
(a) Study the students as well as the scholars.
(b) Study the children as well as the parents.
(c) Study the masters as well as the slaves.
(d) Study the women as well as the men.

5. What does Morrison see that the subject of the dream is?
(a) The action in the dream.
(b) The dreamer.
(c) The dream itself.
(d) The symbolism of the dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Morrison read The Words to Say It?

2. Which of the following best describes Marie Cardinal?

3. What does Morrison claim is not representative of a black woman for her?

4. Which flight is described by Morrison as an escape?

5. Who did Morrison thank for helping her with the book?

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