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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. Who wrote Voyagers of the West?
(a) Dunbar.
(b) Cath.
(c) Poe.
(d) Bailyn.

2. What does Morrison describe as being the second feature of a non-American?
(a) Skills.
(b) Financial status.
(c) Health.
(d) Social status.

3. Where does Morrison's vulnerability lie?
(a) Romanticizing blackness.
(b) She is biased.
(c) She is a woman.
(d) Caring for racial superiority.

4. What book discusses certain kinds of readings that seem inextricable from certain experiences of writing and knowledge?
(a) Playing in the Dark.
(b) Possession.
(c) The Words to Say It.
(d) Preludes IV.

5. In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, how many days are described?
(a) 7.
(b) 30.
(c) 2.
(d) 365.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group does Dunbar write about the suppression of?

2. A common claim is that white America has considered morality and other virtues without reference to which group?

3. In what year does William Dunbar write about suppression?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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