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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 does a character in Hemingway's work refer to having sex with black women as?
(a) Angry lions.
(b) House cats.
(c) Mother hens.
(d) Nurse sharks.

2. What does Huckleberry Finn critique?
(a) Complex emotions.
(b) Sexuality and racism.
(c) Class and race.
(d) Helplessness.

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

4. According to Cardinal, what does America plan to slaughter?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Iran.
(c) United Kingdom.
(d) Algeria.

5. In what role does Morrison see the subject of a dream?
(a) Black woman.
(b) Artist.
(c) Reader.
(d) Writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morrison's work require her to consider?

2. In Hemingway's work, a person from which country kills Harry?

3. What does Morrison reflect on the consequences of in the preface?

4. Who was criticized by a scholar who deemed the term "darky" acceptable?

5. What is the second meditation that Morrison suggests an American group offers itself up as a surrogate for?

(see the answer key)

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