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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. What is Dunbar able to justify?
(a) Starving his slaves.
(b) Leaving Europe.
(c) Giving his slaves lashes.
(d) Killing a man.

2. What does Morrison say produces work?
(a) Perseverance.
(b) Stress.
(c) Relaxation.
(d) Imagination.

3. What type of settlers does Voyagers of the West investigate?
(a) European.
(b) Asian.
(c) South American.
(d) African.

4. Where does Morrison teach?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Brown.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Harvard.

5. Which of the following does Morrison acknowledge?
(a) That each author is biased.
(b) That each writer tries to avoid writing about race.
(c) That each reader is looking for something different.
(d) That each reader reads differently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison wish studies of racism would focus on?

2. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?

3. In which novel does Morrison discuss a character named Catherine?

4. What did Cardinal tell her doctor not to keep in his office?

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

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